History
Nishi 4-chōme Stop (SC01) is on the Sapporo Streetcar Ichijō Line and Toshin Line in Minami 1-jō Nishi 4-chōme, Chūō-ku, Sapporo. It opened on 12 August 1918 as the Sapporo Electric Tramway 4-chōme Stop, was municipalised on 1 December 1927, renamed 4-chōme Mitsukoshi-mae on 31 July 1948 and Mitsukoshi-mae on 8 July 1949, then renamed Nishi 4-chōme on the Ichijō Line side on 1 August 1965. The Mitsukoshi-mae–Sapporo-eki-mae section was abolished on 16 December 1971 when the Subway Namboku Line opened, and the Ichijō and Nishi-yon-chōme lines were rebuilt for through running. The 1 April 1973 closure of the stop–Susukino section left this as a terminus until the Toshin Line reopened the same alignment as the Sapporo Streetcar ring on 20 December 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Nishi 4-chōme is the northernmost streetcar stop in Japan, sitting close to the Sapporo Subway Ōdōri Station; when the new Toshin Line opened in December 2015 the inner-loop platform was relocated onto the Ekimaedōri pavement using a side-reservation track design, while the outer loop platform stayed on a safety island in the road.