History
Suginami-chō Stop (DY08) is on the Hakodate City Tram Yunokawa Line in Suginami-chō and Shōin-chō, Hakodate, Hokkaidō. Like the rest of the Yunokawa Line, the stop traces back to the early-twentieth-century Hakodate Suiden tram era (see Hakodate City Bureau of Transportation history), and its rebuild for present-day operations was completed on 28 March 2011 — converting the long inbound platform to a uniform one-tram length and adding a barrier-free ramp, weather canopy, LED safety-island markers and rubber pole bollards on both platforms. The stop has a chidori (staggered) layout because of the irregular intersection geometry.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The clock fixed on a pole at the inbound platform was donated in October 1994, was damaged in a road accident in 2006 and re-installed at the end of that year, and was kept in essentially the same form when the platform was rebuilt in 2011 — just repainted to match the new shelters.