Naebo

History

Naebo Station opened on 16 May 1910 as a general-purpose station on the JNR Hakodate Main Line. The Hokkaidō Railway's Sapporo Line—later the Chitose Line—joined the station on 21 August 1926, and the privately built Jōzankei Railway began running in via Higashi-Sapporo on 25 July 1931. After Hokkaidō Railway was nationalised on 1 August 1943 and Jōzankei Railway withdrew on 1 November 1969, the Chitose Line was rerouted onto a new alignment on 9 September 1973, eliminating the via-Higashi-Sapporo route. As part of Sapporo's Naebo Station district redevelopment, the entire station was rebuilt some 300 m closer to Sapporo and reopened as a third-generation overpass station on 17 November 2018.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

Although Naebo is administratively on the Hakodate Main Line, the Chitose Line's 0-kilometre post still stands inside the station precincts because the Chitose Line originally branched out from here.