History
Sōen Station opened on 1924-06-01 on the Hakodate Main Line between Kotoni and Sapporo, taking over the site of a seasonal halt that had served the adjacent Sapporo Racecourse since 1908. The Sasshō-Minami Line — today's Sasshō Line — began branching from the station in November 1934. Freight traffic peaked in the post-war decades but was withdrawn on 1978-10-02, and the elevated station building opened on 1988-11-03 as part of the wider Kotoni–Sapporo viaduct project. JR Hokkaido inherited the stop on 1987-04-01. Electric services on the Sasshō Line began on 2012-06-01, the same day that line was electrified between Sapporo and Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
JR Hokkaido has its head office adjoining Sōen Station, and the JR Freight Hokkaido branch is housed in the same building.