Sapporo Station

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The Sapporo Station (Japanese札幌 駅, Sapporo -eki ) is located in the district of Kita Japanese city of Sapporo in Hokkaido prefecture.

History

The first station was in Sapporo (官 営 幌 内 鉄 道, Kan'ei Horonai tetsudō ) in 1880 as a termination stop the line of the national railway company Horonai - 1909-1987 Horonai the line - built. In 1881 was the temporary station building replaced in the course of the growth of the city of Sapporo by a larger building, which was destroyed in a fire in 1907.

The 1908 newly constructed building was designed in the west - American style, half-timbered and red- covered gable roofs. A slightly scaled replica of this wooden building is demolished in 1951 in the historical village of Hokkaido in Atsubetsuchō - Konopporo (厚 别 町 小野 幌).

At the 1951 instead of the station building built in 1908 by construction of a subway station Namboku line, which was built for the 1972 Winter Olympics was added in 1971. At the same time began the construction of an underground shopping center. 1978, a new office and retail building was built east of the station.

2003, the current station building and the directly adjacent 38 -storey JR Tower was built together with shopping mall, cinemas and hotel.

In the future, the Sapporo train station to the termination stop the Hokkaido Shinkansen.

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Lines

Environment

The station is located in the northern city of Sapporo. The adjacent neighborhood has evolved in recent years increasingly become an office and retail location.

The station is the central bus station of Sapporo, which is served by several urban routes, sightseeing buses and intercity buses.

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