History
Yamahana 19-jō Stop (SC16) is on the Sapporo Streetcar Yamahana Line in Chūō-ku, Sapporo, at the Nishi-7-chōme-dōri/Kanjō-sen intersection (Minami 19-jō Nishi 6-chōme). It opened on 23 November 1931 as Ichi-Chū-ura Stop, was abolished on 1 December 1941, reopened as Minami-19-jō on 17 April 1950, renamed Yamahana 19-jō on 1 April 1959, abolished again on 1 November 1965 when it was absorbed into Kashiwa-Chūgaku-mae (now Kōnan-shōgakkō-mae) and reopened a second time as Yamahana 19-jō on 1 November 1973. The stop number SC16 was assigned on 1 April 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Yamahana 19-jō has an unusual history of having been abolished twice — first in 1941, then again in 1965 when it was absorbed into Kashiwa-Chūgaku-mae — before reopening for a third time in 1973, all while occupying essentially the same stretch of track.