Minami-Otaru Station


Minami-Otaru Station is a railway station on the Hakodate Main Line in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by Hokkaido Railway Company. The station is numbered "S14".

Lines

Minami-Otaru Station is served by the Hakodate Main Line.

Layout

The station has one island Platform with two tracks. The platform is in a shallow cutting. The station has automated ticket machines, automated turnstiles which accept Kitaca, and a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History

As one of the intermediate station on the Horonai Railway, Kaiunchō Station opened on November 11, 1880 provisionally and on November 28 formally. On May 22, 1881 the station was relocated and renamed Sumiyoshi Station after the station was burned down. It was again renamed as Otaru Station on June 11, 1900. The present name Minami-Otaru was given on July 15, 1920 when the former Chūō Otaru Station, located closer to the city center, became Otaru Station.
The station became the junction of the lines of Hokkaido Colliery and Railway Company and the Hokkaido Railway on August 1, 1905. After the nationalization of the two companies in 1906 and 1907, the trunk line connecting Hakodate and Sapporo via Otaru was named the Hakodate Main Line and its branch between Minami-Otaru and Temiya was named the Temiya Line. The Temiya Line was abandoned in 1985.