History
Taihei Station was inaugurated on 1 November 1986 as the Taihei provisional boarding halt on the Japanese National Railways Sasshō Line, handling passengers only at an unstaffed platform on the north side of the then single-track line. At privatisation on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR Hokkaido and was upgraded to a full station. The Sasshō Line was branded as the 'Gakuen Toshi Line' in 1991. Doubling between Taihei and Shinoro completed on 16 March 1995, and electrification of the Sōen-Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku section reached the station on 1 June 2012. Automated ticket gates were installed on 13 July 1999 and ICard Kitaca service began on 25 October 2008.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Taihei is the southernmost unstaffed station on the Gakuen Toshi (Sasshō) Line.