History
The station was inaugurated on 10 December 1902 as Hongō, an intermediate stop on the Hokkaidō Railway between the first Hakodate Station and Mori. After nationalisation in 1907 and the 1909 line-naming reorganisation it joined the Hakodate Main Line. It was renamed Oshima-Ōno on 1 April 1942, and was made unstaffed in stages from 1986. Construction began in 2005 for the Hokkaidō Shinkansen terminal here; a temporary structure operated from 2012 while the new station rose, and the present building was completed in September 2015. On 26 March 2016 the Shinkansen extension from Shin-Aomori opened and the stop was renamed Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The station building's interior reflects local heritage with douhoku-cedar paneling and Hokuto-made bricks, while a Kenshirō statue from the manga Fist of the North Star stands in the adjoining tourism centre as a play on the city name.