History
The station began on 1 July 1958 as Kamayausu Station, a simple unstaffed halt on the JNR Sasshō Line, after twenty-five years of local petitioning by the Kamayausu district. From 1980 the area was redeveloped as the planned community Sapporo New Town Ainosato; the original platform was relocated about 630 m toward Shintotsukawa on 1 November 1986 to suit the new layout, and a passing loop and second platform were added in 1991. JR Hokkaido took over the stop at privatisation on 1 April 1987. The station was renamed Ainosato-kōen on 16 March 1995, and the line through it was electrified on 1 June 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Ainosato-kōen carries more passengers than any other unstaffed station on the JR Hokkaido network.