History
Atsubetsu Station opened on 1894-08-01 as a general station when the private Hokkaido Colliery Railway built a new station between Sapporo and Nopporo. The line was nationalised on 1906-10-01 and absorbed into the Hakodate Main Line. A footbridge was added on 1967-11-20. Freight handling ended on 1973-08-01, the building was rebuilt on 1978-03-30, and parcels ended on 1985-03-14. JR Hokkaido inherited the station at the 1987 privatisation. A west concourse opened on 1990-09-01 along with a new down siding (track 4). Automatic ticket gates entered service at the south concourse in December 1998 and at the west concourse later that month; Kitaca IC cards were accepted from 2008-10-25, and platform lifts were installed on 2010-02-27. The pedestrian deck linking north and south was rebuilt in May 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
At the Sapporo end of the platforms, a single-track Atsubetsu Connecting Line branches off to the Sapporo Freight Terminal, used by goods trains rejoining the Chitose Line.