Sapporo Station

Sapporo Station 札幌駅
South side of the Sapporo Station
Location	Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido Japan
Operated by	JR Hokkaido
Line(s)	■■ Hakodate Main Line ■ Chitose Line ■ Sasshō Line
Connections	Subway Sapporo Station
Other information
Station code	01
History
Opened	28 November 1880
Traffic
Passengers (FY2015)	95,288 daily
Location
Sapporo Station Location within Japan

Sapporo Station (札幌駅, Sapporo-eki^?) is a railway station in Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. It is served by Hakodate Main Line and other lines of Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido), and is also connected to the Subway Sapporo Station.

Sapporo Station is the starting point and terminus for the limited expresses of JR Hokkaido. It also has the tallest building (JR Tower) in Hokkaido. Sapporo station is developing into a commercial center as large as Ōdōri Park and Susukino.

The following JR Hokkaido lines and trains pass through or terminate at Sapporo Station:

Sapporo Station consists of five platforms that are raised above street level. These raised platforms serve 10 tracks which run in an east-west direction. Two concourses run north-south below the platforms. It has a commercial facility called Paseo under the ground and JR Tower on the south side of the station.

Sapporo Station opened on 28 November 1880 as a terminus of the Horonai Railway. A new station building was built in 1881 and it was enlarged as Sapporo developed. In 1908, the station building was rebuilt because of a fire in 1907. The restored building can be found in the Historical Village of Hokkaido in Nopporo Forest Park.

The third reconstruction was finished in 1951 and the Sapporo Subway was opened in 1971. An underground shopping center was started in 1972 and a commercial building was opened on the east side of the station in 1978.