Goryōkaku Station

Goryōkaku Station 五稜郭駅
Goryōkaku Station, May 2012
Location	Hakodate, Hokkaido Japan
Operated by	JR Hokkaido South Hokkaido Railway Company
Line(s)	Hakodate Main Line South Hokkaido Railway Line
Connections	Bus stop
History
Opened	1911

Goryōkaku Station (五稜郭駅, Goryōkaku-eki) is a railway station on the Hakodate Main Line and South Hokkaido Railway Line in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido) and South Hokkaido Railway Company. The station is named after Goryōkaku fort, located about two kilometers from the station.

Lines

Goryōkaku Station is served by the Hakodate Main Line and the South Hokkaido Railway Line.

Station layout

A freight train departing from the station, October 2013

The station has two island platforms serving four tracks.

Platforms

3-4	■ Hakodate Main Line	for Hakodate
5-6	■ Hakodate Main Line	for Oshamanbe and Sapporo
	■ South Hokkaido Railway Line	for Kikonai

Adjacent stations

«	Service	»
Hakodate Main Line
Hakodate	Super Hokuto Hokuto Hakodate Liner	Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto
Hakodate	Local	Kikyō
South Hokkaido Railway Line
Terminus	Local	Nanaehama

History

The station building in August 2006

The station opened as a new station on the Hakodate Main Line on September 1, 1911.^[1] It became the terminus of the Esashi Line on September 15, 1913.^[1] With the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of JR Hokkaido.^[1] The freight terminal was renamed Hakodate Freight Terminal on March 12, 2011.^[2]

Surrounding area

Hakodate Freight Terminal (函館貨物駅, Hakodate Kamotsu-eki) operated by Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight) is located next to the passenger station and was previously called Goryōkaku until it was renamed on March 12, 2011.^[2]

Goryōkaku fort
Goryōkaku-Ekimae Post office

Bus services

Hakodate Bus

References

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1 2 3 Ishino, Tetsu, ed. (1998). 停車場変遷大辞典国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR] II. Japan: JTB. p. 805,828. ISBN 4-533-02980-9.
1 2 Japan Freight Railway Company (March 11, 2011). "駅名改称のご案内～６線区８ヶ所の駅名を改称します～" (PDF). Retrieved March 19, 2011.

Stations of the Hakodate Main Line

Branch Line: Ōnuma; Ikedaen; Nagareyama Onsen; Chōshiguchi; Shikabe; Oshima-Numajiri; Oshima-Sawara; Kakarima; Oshironai; Higashi-Mori; Mori

Stations of the South Hokkaido Railway Company

Goryōkaku Nanaehama Higashi-Kunebetsu Kunebetsu Kiyokawaguchi Kamiiso Moheji Oshima-Tōbetsu Kamaya Izumisawa Satsukari Kikonai

Stations of the JR Esashi Line

Transferred to South Hokkaido Railway Company in 2016	Goryōkaku Nanaehama Higashi-Kunebetsu Kunebetsu Kiyokawaguchi Kamiiso Moheji Oshima-Tōbetsu Kamaya Izumisawa Satsukari Kikonai

Closed in 2014	Oshima-Tsuruoka Yoshibori Shinmei Yunotai Miyakoshi Katsuraoka Naka-Suda Kaminokuni Esashi

Stations of the Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line

Aomori Kanita (Naka-Oguni) Tsugaru-Imabetsu (Tappi-Kaitei) (Yoshioka-Kaitei) (Shiriuchi) Kikonai Goryōkaku Hakodate

Coordinates: 41°48′15″N 140°44′01″E / 41.8042°N 140.7337°E / 41.8042; 140.7337

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