History
Kami-Nopporo Station opened on 21 August 1926 as a passenger-only stop of the second Hokkaido Railway's Sapporo Line, originally located about a kilometre to the northwest in a wooden depot with two platforms and three tracks. The line was nationalised on 1 August 1943, when the station joined the Chitose Line, and freight and parcel handling began on 1 April 1945. When the Chitose Line was re-routed on 9 September 1973, the station was moved to its present elevated location and became unstaffed. JR Hokkaido took over at privatisation on 1 April 1987. Contract-based staffed operation resumed on 1 April 1998, with automated ticket gates following that December and ICard Kitaca service on 25 October 2008.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The original 1926 station building stood about a kilometre to the northwest and was renowned across Japan for its lavish azalea and dahlia plantings; the abandoned site became Atsubetsu-Minami Park in 1991.