History
Eniwa Station opened on 1926-08-21 as a general station of the private Hokkaido Railway's Sapporo Line. From 1927 to 1955 a 14.4 km forestry railway, first a Ōji Paper line and from 1931 the state Eniwa Forest Railway, ran south from the station for timber and dam construction. The Imperial Army held a major manoeuvre nearby in 1936 and an imperial special carrying Emperor Shōwa worked through the station. Wartime purchase in August 1943 brought the line under the Ministry of Railways and renamed the route the Chitose Line. The Chitose section was double-tracked in September 1965 and the Kita-Hiroshima section in September 1966; the elevated bridge-style station opened on 1986-08-01. JR Hokkaido inherited the station in 1987. Rapid Airport services began calling on 2002-03-16, Kitaca IC card service began on 2008-10-25, and the subtitle 'Hokkaidō Bunkyō University-Mae' was added on 2019-08-01.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Because Rapid Airport trains repeatedly overran the platform after they began stopping here in 2002, lineside signs warn drivers 'Eniwa caution / rapid stops'; between May and June 2007 the rapid service still failed to stop on three separate occasions.