is a railway station on the

Sasshō Line The , commonly known as the , is a railway line in Japan operated by Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido) which connects in Sapporo and in Tōbetsu, Ishikari District. Its name is made up of two characters from and , the latter of which ...

Kita-ku, Sapporo is a ward of Sapporo composed of residential neighborhoods mostly arranged in grid patterns, and each built surrounding a train station, broken up by areas of farmland and some light-industrial areas. With 260,000 people, it is the most populat ...

Hokkaido is the list of islands of Japan by area, second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefectures of Japan, prefecture, making up its own list of regions of Japan, region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō fr ...

, Japan, operated by the

Hokkaido Railway Company The is one of the constituent companies of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group), and is often referred to by its official abbreviation: . It operates intercity and local rail services in Hokkaido, Japan. The company introduced Kitaca, a smart ...

(JR Hokkaido). The station is numbered G10.

Lines

Ainosato-Kyōikudai Station is served by the

(Gakuen Toshi Line) from to .

Station layout

The station has two

side platforms A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a railway platform, platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or bus rapid transit, transitway. A st ...

serving two tracks. The station has automated ticket machines, automated turnstiles which accept

Kitaca Kitaca () is a rechargeable contactless smart card ticketing system for public transport in Sapporo, Japan. It launched on October 25, 2008 and is managed by Hokkaido Railway Company. The card's name is a combination of the word for and the Ja ...

, and a "

Midori no Madoguchi , short for ''Magnetic-electronic Automatic'' ''Reservation System,'' is a train ticket reservation system used by the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and travel agencies in Japan. It was developed jointly by Hitachi and the former Ja ...

" staffed ticket office.

Platforms

File:AinosatokyoikudaiEki2004-12-5.jpg, View of the platforms in December 2004

History

The station opened on 1 November 1986. With the privatization of

Japanese National Railways The , abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987. Network Railways As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pre ...

(JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Hokkaido. Electric services commenced from 1 June 2012, following electrification of the line between Sapporo and .

Surrounding area

Hokkaido University of Education is a national public university administered by the government of Japan. It has five campuses in Hokkaido, Japan. The main campus is on the outskirts of Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido. Hokkaido University of Education, Sapporo (HUES) is the la ...

Sapporo Campus

References

External links

Station information and map
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ainosato-Kyoikudai Station Railway stations in Sapporo Railway stations in Japan opened in 1986 Stations of Hokkaido Railway Company Kita-ku, Sapporo