Higashisapporo Railway Station
| Higashisapporo ( 東 札幌 ) | |
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 Monument at the former station location
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| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| opening | August 21, 1926 |
| Conveyance | November 1, 1986 |
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| City / municipality | Sapporo |
| prefecture | Hokkaidō |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 3 '19 " N , 141 ° 23' 2" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 18 m TP |
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Decommissioned:
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| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Higashisapporo Station ( Japanese 東 札幌 駅 , Higashisapporo-eki ) is a former train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . It was located southeast of downtown Sapporo in the Shiroishi-ku district .
A station of the same name on the Tōzai line of the Sapporo subway is about three hundred meters south.
description
Higashisapporo was a crossing station . It was located on the Chitose line of the state railway (although the route that has existed since 1973 no longer affects the location of the station). It crossed here with the Jōzankei railway line of the private company Jōzankei Tetsudō. The station was about two and a half kilometers southeast of the city center and was oriented from northeast to southwest. He had four tracks on two platforms . This was followed by a freight yard .
history
From 1918 the Jōzankei railway line ran from Shiroishi through the Toyohira Valley, but there was not yet a train station here. This changed on August 21, 1926 when the Hokkaidō Tetsudō opened the Chitose Line , which branched off from the Hakodate main line in Naebo and ran parallel to the Jōzankei railway line for a short distance. On this joint section, the Higashisapporo station used by both companies went into operation on the same day.
The south of the station located part of the Jōzankei railway line was electrified on October 25, 1929 with 1500 volts DC , the Naebo – Higashisapporo section on July 25, 1931. After the forced nationalization of Hokkaidō Tetsudō in August 1943, the Ministry of Transport and Communication was for the Responsible for running the Chitose Line, from June 1949 the Japanese State Railways . The Jōzankei Tetsudō moved their city-side end point on October 1, 1957 to Higashisapporo and then removed the catenary on the section to Naebo.
On November 1, 1969, the Jōzankei Tetsudō stopped rail operations, making Higashisapporo an ordinary through station. In the mid-1960s, the state railway began expanding the Chitose line. The winding section leading over Higashisapporo could not be expanded to two tracks, which is why it was replaced by a straighter route over Shin-Sapporo , which went into operation on September 9, 1973. From that day on, Higashisapporo was only used for freight traffic, the connection was made via the branch line from Shiroishi. On November 1, 1986, the state railway also stopped freight traffic and shut down the station for good.
The site lay fallow for around a decade and was transferred to the city of Sapporo in 1997, which then implemented an urban development project. The Sapporo Convention Center, which opened in 2003, is now located on the northeastern part . As the removal of contaminated sites took longer than planned, the new use of the southwestern part was delayed by several years. Finally, a shopping center with 110 stores was opened in 2008. A memorial commemorates the former train station.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Shunzō Miyawaki: 鉄 道 廃 線 跡 を 歩 く (hiking along disused railway lines) . tape 4 . JTB Publishing, Tokyo 1997, ISBN 978-4-533-02857-1 , pp. 60 .
- ↑ Kazuo Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道 (Hokkaidō's railroad in photos) . tape 1 . Hokkaidō Shinbunsha, Sapporo 2002, ISBN 978-4-89453-220-5 , pp. 36-37 .