Chitose (Hokkaido · Hakodate City Transportation Bureau)

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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 with a spur from the then Higashikawa-bashi stop ahead of the 29 June 1913 electrification between Shinonome-chō (later Rōdō-kaikan-mae) and Yukawa, burnt on 20 January 1926 in a fire that took out 31 of the 59 trams stored there, rebuilt, and finally destroyed by the Hakodate Great Fire of 21 March 1934, after which it was not rebuilt.

The leading explanation for the 20 January 1926 fire at the Shinkawa Depot beside Chitose-chō is an electrical leak from car No. 48 of the Type 50 bogie cars, whose trolley pole had been left attached; the depot and a paint shop burnt along with 31 of the 59 trams stored there. Two Type 50 car bodies — the operator's only large bogie cars at the time — were rebuilt afterwards, one at Umebachi Tekkōjo and one at the company's own works; surviving bogies and other salvaged parts were combined with newly built Type 100-pattern bodies and absorbed into the Type 100 class; and Type 200 cars hurriedly brought in from the Tokyo City Electric Bureau were likewise re-bodied to the Type 100 pattern and added to that class.