History
Megumino Station opened on 1982-03-01 as a passenger-only Japanese National Railways station on the Chitose Line, inserted between Shimamatsu and Eniwa to serve the new 'Eniwa New Town Megumino'. A municipal lobbying body formed in August 1979 secured approval for the station in May 1980, and an Itō-Yōkadō store opened in time for the inauguration. JR Hokkaido inherited the station at the 1987 privatisation. Automatic ticket gates entered service on 1998-12-14, and operations were contracted to Hokkaido JR Service Net on 2002-04-01. East-side lifts and escalators opened on 2005-02-01, full barrier-free works followed in 2006, Kitaca IC card service began on 2008-10-25, and 'speakable' ticket machines arrived on 2026-03-14.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The Itō-Yōkadō Eniwa store, drawn to the area specifically to open on the same day as the station in 1982, served the Megumino district for 37 years before closing on 2019-09-29 and being demolished.