History
Komaba-shako-mae Stop (DY04) is on the Hakodate City Tram Yunokawa Line in Komaba-machi, Hakodate, Hokkaidō. The adjoining Komaba Depot was completed on 27 December 1934 — built on the site of the former Kashiwano Baseball Ground (home of the Hakodate Taiyō Club) to replace the New River Depot lost in the Hakodate Great Fire. Initially called Kashiwano-Shako, the depot's offices, workshops, electricity-substation and traffic-control functions were progressively centralised here as the Kashiwagi-chō and Yanagawa-chō depots were closed in 1973–1974, and on 7 October 2002 the management and transport divisions moved into a newly built office block in the depot grounds. Today the depot's main inbound–outbound spurs run east and west from the depot site and join the main line on either side.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The Yunokawa-bound platform is longer than the outbound platform because Komaba is where Yunokawa-bound trains change crews — its long platform also accommodates vehicle swaps for inspections and schedule adjustments, and the stopping position differs between through trains and Yunokawa terminating runs.