History
Shin-Yūbari Station (station number K20) is on the JR Hokkaido Sekishō Line in the Momijiyama district of Yūbari, Hokkaido. It opened on 1 November 1892 as Momijiyama Station — the only intermediate stop on the Hokkaidō Tankō Tetsudō branch from Oiwake to Yūbari — was nationalised in 1906 and, on 1 October 1981, was renamed Shin-Yūbari to coincide with the closure of the Noborikawa branch line and the opening of the Sekishō Line's Shin-Yūbari–Shintoku segment. With the abolition of nearby Takinoue Station on 16 March 2024, Shin-Yūbari became the only railway station in the entire city of Yūbari. Yūbari is in roughly the centre of Hokkaido, under the Sorachi Subprefecture; it grew up as the principal city of the Ishikari coalfield, reached a peak population of 116,908 in 1960, then lost all of its coal mines by 1990. Subsequent fiscal collapse — sparked by the disclosure of hidden borrowings — led to the city being designated a financial-rebuilding municipality on 6 March 2007 and transitioning to a financial-regeneration municipality in 2010.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The station's old name Momijiyama ("maple-leaf mountain") is preserved in the area's place-name; the station article notes that from the Taishō through early Shōwa eras, the local Igarashi/Ōnishi/Itaya-confectionery agency in front of the station sold "Momiji-mochi" as the area's signature sweet.