History
Hassamu Station opened on 1 November 1986 as a JNR passenger-only stop on the Hakodate Main Line, filling the long gap between Teine and Kotoni. According to the commemorative monument at the south entrance, a local landowner donated the parcel because the inconvenience of having no station between the two existing halts had become acute. The station passed to JR Hokkaido at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, became directly staffed in April 1988, and switched to a contracted-operations model in April 2001 under what is now Hokkaidō JR Service Net. Automatic ticket gates entered service in December 1998, Kitaca card readers in October 2008, and barrier-free works concluded on 25 February 2010.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the Tōzai Line was extended to Miyanosawa in 1999 the new subway stop one block away was originally to be called Hassamu Station, but it became Hassamu-Minami because the JR name was already in use here.