History
Sakimori Station traces back to the Sakimori-chō provisional halt of the Muroran Main Line, reportedly opened on 1955-11-01. When the Kogane–Jinya-machi section was double-tracked and realigned on 1968-09-19, the halt was abolished and the present Sakimori Station was opened on the new alignment as an unstaffed passenger-only stop. JR Hokkaido inherited it at the 1987 privatisation. The elevated station sits on a viaduct between two tunnels; the platforms are reached by stairs from a connecting passage built into the bridge piers. From opening it had no proper building or waiting room, only a platform canopy; a roughly 20 m² waiting area on the stair landing was closed in late August 1999 after damage from arson and graffiti, and later removed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Daily boardings rose from just 18 in fiscal 1981 to 200 by fiscal 1992, reflecting the growth of the Hakuchōdai New Town development begun in the surrounding area in 1969.