History
Hakodate Arīna-mae Stop (DY03) is on the Hakodate City Tram Yunokawa Line in Yukawa-chō 1-chōme, Hakodate, Hokkaidō. It opened on 29 June 1913 as Ashibori Stop, was renamed Shinsekai-mae in September 1920, then Yunokawa-yūenchi-mae after the Hakodate Suiden Yukawa amusement park opened in 1922, was abolished at an unrecorded date, reopened as Shimin-kaikan-mae on 10 September 1983, gained a sub-name in July 2015 when Hakodate Arena opened, renamed Hakodate Arīna-mae on 1 March 2016, extended its platforms by 15 m in March 2016 to handle two-car loads, modified its stopping position and added an LED lamp and rear-view mirror in November 2019, and on 1 December 2025 will switch its line-map and announcement form to Arīna-mae Stop.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Hakodate Arīna-mae is one of the few Hakodate tram stops to have been outright abolished and brought back to life — the Yunokawa-yūenchi (Yunokawa Amusement Park) era stop closed at an unrecorded date, and the present stop was reopened in 1983 as Shimin-kaikan-mae for the new city hall complex, then renamed for the 2015-built Hakodate Arena.