History
Goryōkaku-kōen-mae Stop (DY09) is on the Hakodate City Tram Yunokawa Line in Hommachi, Hakodate, Hokkaidō. It opened on 29 June 1913 as Goryōkaku Stop, was renamed Goryōkaku-kōen-mae on 4 May 1949, became the junction with the Miyamae Line on 1 July 1951, lost that junction when the Miyamae Line was abolished on 1 April 1993, gained a Nomura Securities-mae naming-rights sub-name on 29 September 2008, and completed an August–November 2015 safety-island reconstruction on 16 November 2015 — converting the platforms from opposed (sōtai-shiki) to staggered (chidori-shiki). Despite the name, the stop is about 850 m from Goryōkaku Park itself, the closest streetcar stop to the park.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The inbound platform's approach announcement, triggered by a trolley contactor as the tram nears the stop, plays an arrangement of the Hakodate-Sanka melody followed by a recorded message — and switches to a steady display showing "Goryōkaku-kōen-mae" once the tram pulls in, then cycles through stop information until the next train approaches.