Minami-Chitose Railway Station

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Minami chitose ( 南 千 歳 )
MinamiChitoseEki2004-5-18.jpg
View of the train station (May 2004)
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Location in the network Separation station
Platform tracks 4th
abbreviation H14
opening October 1, 1980
location
City / municipality Chitose
prefecture Hokkaidō
Country Japan
Coordinates 42 ° 48 ′ 30 "  N , 141 ° 40 ′ 31"  E Coordinates: 42 ° 48 ′ 30 "  N , 141 ° 40 ′ 31"  E
Height ( SO ) 19  m  TP
Railway lines

JR Hokkaido

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The Minami-Chitose Station ( Jap. 南千歳駅 , Minami-Chitose-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaido . It is located in Ishikari Sub-Prefecture, Chitose City area .

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Minami-Chitose is a separation station on the Chitose Line from Sapporo to Tomakomai . Two routes branch off here: to the south a 2.6 km long, largely underground branch of the Chitose Line to New Chitose Airport , to the south the Sekishō Line towards Yūbari , Obihiro and Kushiro . Both lines are operated by the JR Hokkaido company.

All express trains that run from Sapporo to the south or east stop in Minami-Chitose. These include the Super Hokuto and Hokuto according to Hakodate , the Suzuran according to Muroran , the Super Ōzora according to Kushiro and the Super Tokachi according to Obihiro. The Airport Liner operates the most frequently : From the airport every 15 minutes to Sapporo and every 30 minutes to Otaru . The Hokutosei and Cassiopeia night trains were discontinued in 2015 and 2016, respectively. Regional trains run at frequent intervals between Sapporo and Tomakomai, about every two to three hours to Oiwake and three to four times a day to Yūbari.

There are bus stops on both sides of the station, which are served by various city and regional lines of the companies Hokkaidō Chūō Bus , Hokuto Kōtsu , Atsuma Bus and Dōnan Bus .

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Track plan

The station is located in a north-west-south-east direction, parallel to national road 36 . It has four tracks, all of which are used for passenger traffic. These are located on two covered central platforms and are arranged in such a way that it is usually possible to change trains in the same direction of travel on the same platform. The station building has the shape of a riding station that spans the tracks. A covered pedestrian overpass crosses the national road, another leads to the Arcadia Plaza office building and the Chitose Outlet Mall Rera .

Tracks

1 ▉  Chitose line Tomakomai • Muroran • Hakodate
▉  Chitose line New Chitose Airport (individual trains)
▉  Sekishō line Oiwake • Shin-Yūbari • Obihiro • Kushiro
2 ▉  Chitose line Sapporo • Teine • Otaru
▉  Chitose line New Chitose Airport (individual trains)
▉  Sekishō line Oiwake (single puffs)
3 ▉  Chitose line New Chitose Airport
▉  Chitose line Sapporo • Teine • Otaru (individual trains)
4th ▉  Chitose line Sapporo • Teine • Otaru

history

The Chitose Line opened in 1926, but trains continued to run here for several decades. This changed in the 1970s with the implementation of a development plan by the Japanese State Railways , which significantly improved local transport in the Sapporo agglomeration. Seven years after the Chitose Line was expanded to double track, it was electrified on October 1, 1980 . On the same day, the state railway took a new station called Chitose-kūkō ( 千 歳 空港 ) into operation. The name at the time indicated its proximity to Chitose Airport.

With the opening of the Sekishō line on October 1, 1981, which enabled a more direct connection between Sapporo and the east of Hokkaidō, the station developed into a transport hub. As part of the privatization of the state railway, it passed on April 1, 1987 into the possession of the new company JR Hokkaido . The new owner put the new line to New Chitose Airport into operation on July 1, 1992, and at the same time gave the station its current name.

Adjacent train stations

Platforms

←
 Lines
→
Chitose Chitose line Chitose Line
JR Hokkaido 		Bibi /
Shin-Chitose Kūkō
Beginning Sekishō line Sekishō Line
JR Hokkaido 		Oiwake

Web links

Commons : Minami-Chitose Train Station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 122-123 .
  2. ↑ Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道, pp. 82–83.
  3. ↑ 新 玄関 ”き ょ う 開業 - 新 千 歳 空港 タ ー ミ ナ ル ビ ル 、 JR が 初 め て 乗 り 入 れ, Hokkaidō Shimbun, July 1, 1992.