History
Hakodate-eki-mae Stop (DY17) is on the Hakodate City Tram Honsen Line (toward Jūjigai) and Ōmori Line (toward Matsukaze-chō), on the road south-east of JR Hakodate Station. It opened on 9 January 1898 as Tsuruoka-chō Stop of the Kameka Horse-drawn Tramway (later the Hakodate Horse-drawn Tramway), passed to Hakodate Suiden on 1 October 1911, was electrified in 1914, was transferred to Dōnan Denki Kidō on 3 February 1943 and to the Hakodate City Office Transport Bureau on 1 November 1943 (a Hakodate City Bureau of Transportation public-enterprise from 1 October 1952). The stop was relocated under the 2004 Hakodate-eki-mae Land Readjustment Project, transferred to Hakodate City Enterprise Bureau Transport Division on 1 April 2011 when the transport and waterworks bureaus merged, and rebuilt under the Hakodate Central Urban Revitalisation Basic Plan with the new platforms opening on 26 November 2014 (Good Design Award 29 September 2015). On 30 August 2024 the Yunokawa-bound boarding position was shifted 7 m rearward to handle weekend crowds.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Embedded in the track-bed on the Matsukaze-chō side of Hakodate-eki-mae is a kilometre-zero marker for National Route 5 — a 1968 gift from the Hakodate-East and Hokuto Lions Clubs — making the stop the formal start point of Route 5 to Sapporo.