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Sunagawa Station

railway station in Sunagawa, Hokkaidō, Japan

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ872776 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sunagawa Station (砂川駅 Sunagawa eki) is a railway station on the Hakodate Main Line of Hokkaido Railway Company, located in Sunagawa, Hokkaidō, Japan, opened in 1891. The station previously served the closed Utashinai Line and Kamisunagawa Branch Line.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Sunagawa Station” as railway station in Sunagawa, Hokkaidō, Japan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sunagawa, Station and railway.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1891—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1891-07-05. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sunagawa, Station and railway providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Sunagawa Station”, the useful work is to connect “railway station in Sunagawa, Hokkaidō, Japan” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q872776. Authority coordinates are 43.493, 141.909. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1891.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Sunagawa Station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Sunagawa Station primary sources, Sunagawa Station archive and Sunagawa research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Sunagawa Station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Sunagawa Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.