History
Hakurindai Station opened on 1986-11-01 as a temporary halt on the Nemuro Main Line, set up by Japanese National Railways to serve the adjacent Hakurindai housing estate in Obihiro. It was promoted to a full passenger station and renamed Hakurindai with the privatisation of JNR on 1987-04-01, when control passed to JR Hokkaido. The station was rebuilt as an elevated structure on 1996-11-24, giving it a single side platform served from a stairway at street level; it has been unstaffed since opening and has no automatic gates. Around it lies a residential district anchored by the apartment blocks of the Hakurindai complex.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station takes its name from the adjacent Hakurindai apartment estate, whose residents had always made up most of its passengers.