Kita-Ichiyan

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Kita-Ichiyan Station was a station of the JR Hokkaido Rumoi Main Line in Fukagawa, Hokkaido, until its closure on 1 April 2026 along with the abolition of the Fukagawa–Ishikari-Numata section. It opened on an unrecorded day in late 1954 (no later than 22 December) as Kita-Ichiyan Provisional Halt — funded almost entirely by local residents (some 2.3 million yen of the 2.81-million-yen project) and built using salvaged materials from the closed Utsunai Station on the Shinmei Line — and was promoted to a full station on 20 July 1955. According to Fukagawa's Wikipedia article, Fukagawa is a city in central-western Hokkaido under the Sorachi Subprefecture, attaining city status on 1 May 1963 through the merger of the former Fukagawa town with the villages of Ichiyan, Osamunai, and Otoe, and is a transport hub in northern Sorachi where multiple rail and road routes converge.

The Fukagawa article notes that rice farming is the city's mainstay, with rotation crops led by soba (buckwheat) alongside neighbouring Asahikawa and Horokanai — Fukagawa ranks second nationally in soba production.