History
Inazumi-Kōen Station opened on 1 November 1986 as a temporary boarding point on the Japanese National Railways Hakodate Main Line, with ticket sales handed to the on-site Kiosk and no dedicated staff. The surrounding low-lying ground had been raised onto an elevated viaduct in September 1983 — the line was shifted 13.8 metres to the north and two level crossings were removed at that time. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the stop passed to JR Hokkaido and was promoted to a regular station. Automated ticket gates entered service on 3 December 1998 and Kitaca contactless payment began on 25 October 2008.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until its 2026 schedule trim, the staffed Midori no Madoguchi ticket office at Inazumi-Kōen kept Japan's latest closing time for an outside-the-gates window — operating until 23:40 every evening.