History
Shin-Sapporo Station, station T19 on the Sapporo Municipal Subway Tōzai Line, opened on 1982-03-21 with the line's extension from Shiroishi to this new eastern terminus. A formal opening ceremony was held the previous day, but the inaugural service was disrupted briefly when the Urakawa-oki Earthquake struck. Platform-edge screen doors entered service on 2008-09-17, one-person operation began with a ceremony on 2009-04-01, and a tenth entrance linking directly to the new Mark Shin-Sapporo medical complex opened on 2023-10-26. The station sits beneath Atsubetsu Aoba-dōri with a single island platform 170 m long and roughly 15 m wide, the widest on the Sapporo subway. The Sapporo Transportation Bureau records an average of 23,277 boardings per day in fiscal 2024, the third-busiest subway station after Ōdōri and Sapporo.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Shin-Sapporo Station is the easternmost subway station in Japan. The hiragana spelling 'shin-Sapporo' was adopted by Sapporo's transit bureau to distinguish it from the adjacent JR Shin-Sapporo Station written in kanji.