Osatsu

History

Osatsu Station opened as a JNR Chitose Line passenger-only halt on 1 July 1958, after the immediate post-war influx of settlers into the Osatsu district of Chitose Town drove a local petition for a stop. The Osatsu Station Establishment Promotion League and the town pledged seven-tenths of the 1.04 million yen construction cost plus volunteer labour, and a 60 m single-track platform with no shelter opened to limited service. The line through Chitose to Eniwa was double-tracked from 27 September 1965, adding the second platform. JR Hokkaido inherited the unstaffed station on 1 April 1987, and a free passageway-and-overpass 'Osatsu Sky Road' opened on 17 December 1994 to connect both sides of the tracks.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

By 2014 daily boardings Osatsu was the third-busiest unstaffed station on JR Hokkaido's network, despite never having had a station building proper until the 1999 simple-roof shelters were added.