Hakodate Station

Hakodate Station (函館駅, Hakodate-eki) is a railway station on the Hakodate Main Line in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by the Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido).

H75 Hakodate Station 函館駅
Entrance of the station in 2025
General information
Location	Hakodate, Hokkaido Japan
Operated by	JR Hokkaido
Line(s)	Hakodate Main Line
Platforms	4 island platforms
Tracks	8
Construction
Structure type	Ground level
Other information
Station code	H75
History
Opened	10 December 1902; 122 years ago (1902-12-10)
Services
Preceding station JR Hokkaido Following station Terminus Hokuto Goryōkaku towards Sapporo Hakodate Main Line Rapid Hakodate Liner Goryōkaku towards Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Hakodate Main Line Local Goryōkaku towards Asahikawa
Location H75 Hakodate Station Location within Hokkaido Show map of Hokkaido H75 Hakodate Station H75 Hakodate Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Lines

• South Hokkaido Railway Company's Dōnan Isaribi Tetsudō Line (nominally ends at Goryōkaku, but trains generally serve Hakodate as well)
• Hakodate Main Line
• Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line (formerly)

Hakodate Station is the terminus of the Hakodate Main Line and the former Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line; Hakodate Municipal Transit streetcars stop at the adjacent Hakodate Ekimae Station.

Train services

In addition to local services, the following long-distance trains serve Hakodate Station.

• Hokuto and Super Hokuto limited express to Sapporo

The following services ended in March 2016 due to the Hokkaido Shinkansen's opening: From Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station to Shin-Aomori Station, which takes a similar route of the Hakuchō\Super Hakuchō. All services go through to Tokyo station, which means the two former sleeper trains had to be discontinued due to the Hokkaido Shinkansen's opening. An extension to Sapporo is currently under construction and will be completed in fiscal 2031.

• Hakuchō and Super Hakuchō limited express to Shin-Aomori
• Cassiopeia and Hokutosei sleeping car limited express to Sapporo and Ueno
• Hamanasu sleeping car express to Sapporo and Aomori

Station layout

The station has four platforms serving eight terminating tracks.

1-4	■Hakodate Main Line	Local services for Nanae, Ōnuma, Mori and Oshamanbe
	■Dōnan Isaribi Tetsudō Line	Local services for Kamiiso and Kikonai
5-8	■Hokuto limited express	For Oshamanbe, Higashi-Muroran and Sapporo
	■Hakucho limited express	For Shin-Aomori (discontinued)
	■Hokutosei limited express	For Sendai and Ueno (discontinued)

• 
  The main entrance
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  Ticket gates
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  Passageway to tracks
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  Platforms

History

Hakodate station first opened on 10 December 1902.

The current station building was opened on 21 June 2003.^{[citation needed]}

Shinkansen services stop at Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, approximately 18 km away from Hakodate Station since 26 March 2016, the day the Shinkansen station opened. "Relay" shuttle services (Hakodate liner) using three-car 733 series electric trains operate between Hakodate and Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station.^[1]