History
Jūjigai Stop (DY20) is on the Hakodate City Tram in Suehiro-chō, Hakodate, Hokkaidō, jointly served by the Honsen Line (5-keitō) and the Hōrai-Yachigashira Line (2-keitō, through-running with Honsen Uoichiba-dōri direction). It opened on 30 October 1913, was equipped with a safety island in June 1941, and on 1 July 2007 took on the naming-rights name "Jūjigai (Meiji-kan / Akarenga-Sōkogun-mae)" before reverting to plain Jūjigai. On 19 December 2024 the stop began service at a new platform shifted about 70 m toward Hakodate-eki-mae — the closest streetcar stop to the Motomachi nishi-bu district and an organisational hub during festivals (operations dispatchers with radios are stationed here for events).
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Jūjigai is the closest tram stop to Motomachi-nishi-bu (the Motomachi western area, with its historic foreign settlements and brick warehouses), and during the Hakodate Port Festival and similar events the city stations radio-equipped operations dispatchers here to handle the crowds.