History
Chitose-chō Stop (DY14) is on the Hakodate City Tram Yunokawa Line in Chitose-chō 27-banchi and Shinkawa-chō 23-banchi, Hakodate, Hokkaidō. It opened on 29 June 1913 as Higashikawa-bashi Stop, was renamed Shinkawa-bashi Stop on 25 November 1919, was later renamed Chitose-chō, then Keisatsusho-mae on 23 April 1947, and finally Chitose-chō again on 1 July 1973. In March 2007 the outbound platform was shortened from three-car to one-car length. The site also hosted the Shinkawa Depot of the predecessor Hakodate Suiden — opened in 1913 with the original Higashikumo-chō–Yukawa electrification, destroyed by a New Year fire on 20 January 1926 that took out 31 of the 59 trams stored there, rebuilt and finally destroyed by the Hakodate Great Fire of 21 March 1934 and not rebuilt afterwards.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The 1926 fire that ravaged Chitose-chō's adjoining Shinkawa Depot was traced to a 50-keishiki Kei-48 bogie tram whose trolley-pole had been left attached — the depot lost 31 of its 59 trams, but the surviving bogies of the unique 50-keishiki two-bogie tram were repaired at Umebachi Tekkōjo and the depot's own workshop and rebuilt, and Tokyo Shiden's 200-keishiki cars were rapidly bought in to fill the gap.