History
Nissen 6-jō Stop (SC05) is on the Sapporo Streetcar Yamahana-nishi Line in Chūō-ku, Sapporo, at the Fukuzumi-Sōen-dōri/Minami-6-jō-dōri intersection (Minami 6-jō Nishi 14-chōme). It opened on 23 November 1931 as single-tracked Minami-6-jō Nishi-15-chōme Stop, was renamed Minami-6-jō on 8 July 1949 and double-tracked on 28 June 1951, becoming Nishi-sen 6-jō on 15 November 1958. On 1 April 2001 the romanisation was updated from "Nissen-" to "Nishisen-", and the stop received number SC05 on 1 April 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The 2001 spelling change at this stop — from "Nissen-" to "Nishisen-" — was a network-wide update that also relettered every other Nissen / Nishisen stop along the Yamahana-nishi Line to match the standardised Japanese reading of "西線".