History
Heiwa Station (number H04) is on the JR Hokkaido Chitose Line in Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido. It opened on 1 November 1986 as the Japanese National Railways' "Heiwa Temporary Halt" (handling passengers only and unstaffed), was promoted to a full station and absorbed into JR Hokkaido at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, gained a station building and on-site staffing as a contract-managed station on 1 July 1998, and started accepting IC card "Kitaca" on 25 October 2008. Shiroishi-ku — the modern ward in which the station sits — traces its name to ex-Sendai-domain Boshin-War retainers of Shiroishi Castle (Katakura family) who, in 1871, settled at "Mottsuki-sappu" (the area around present-day Shiroishi-Chūō); per Shiroishi-ku's Wikipedia article, the Kaitakushi official Iwamura Michitoshi christened the settlement "Shiroishi-mura" from the settlers' home castle-town, and Heiwa Station itself was opened (as Kokutetsu Heiwa-eki) in November 1986 — a milestone explicitly recorded in the ward's 1986 annals.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The Heiwa Station article notes an unusual physical setting: the Hakodate Main Line up- and down-tracks run on either side of the station, but no Hakodate-Line platforms are built here — the station serves only the Chitose Line. The southern side adjoins the Sapporo Freight Terminal Station, and the unusually long 294-metre "Kashiyama Crossing Pedestrian Bridge" (柏山跨線人道橋) connects the station entrance to the surrounding neighbourhood.