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 ...
in
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
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, 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 G11.
Lines
Ainosato-kōen Station is served by 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 ...
(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 on the otherwise single-track section of the line east of Ainosato-Kyōikudai Station.
The station has automated ticket machines and
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 ...
card readers.
The station is unattended.
History
Electric services commenced from 1 June 2012, following electrification of the line between Sapporo and .
See also
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List of railway stations in Japan
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ainosato-Koen Station
Railway stations in Sapporo
Stations of Hokkaido Railway Company
Kita-ku, Sapporo
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1958