History
Kita-Hiroshima Station opened on 21 August 1926 as a general-purpose stop on the Hokkaidō Railway's Sapporo Line, nationalised on 1 August 1943 and absorbed into the JNR Chitose Line. The line was double-tracked to Eniwa in September 1966 and to Naebo on 9 September 1973. Freight handling ended on 20 December 1974 when the original ground-level building gave way to an overpass; JR Hokkaido inherited the station at privatisation on 1 April 1987. The current building reopened on 19 November 1995, and the Elfin Park east-west walkway followed on 5 March 2000. Platforms were extended and an accessible gate added in late 2022 ahead of the 2023 opening of the Hokkaidō Ball Park F Village.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 'Kita' prefix in Kita-Hiroshima was added to distinguish the Hokkaidō station from Hiroshima Station in western Japan—a reverse migration of sorts, since the surrounding village was settled in the Meiji era by emigrants from Hiroshima Prefecture.