History
Shinoro Station opened on 20 November 1934 with the Japanese Government Railways' Sasshō South Line between Sōen and Ishikari-Tōbetsu, in what is now Kita-ku, Sapporo. A 1923 petitioning campaign by Shinoro Village helped secure a stop at the heart of the village. The line was renamed the Sasshō Line in October 1935 after joining with the Sasshō North Line. The station was a major shipment point for oats, onions and other farm produce, with up to twenty Sapporo-stone and brick warehouses around it at its peak; suburbanisation from the late 1970s turned the area residential. Double-tracking around the station finished in 1995 and 1997, and the Sōen - Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku section was electrified on 1 June 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
On 4 March 2014 station staff misread the schedule and locked the East and West entrances before the final train arrived, forcing passengers who missed boarding to reach their destinations by taxi.