Chuo-Toshokan-Mae

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Chūō-toshokan-mae Stop (SC12) is on the Sapporo Streetcar Yamahana-nishi Line and Yamahana Line in Minami 22-jō Nishi 13-chōme, Chūō-ku, Sapporo, with both lines normally through-running here. It opened on 23 November 1931 as Shihan-mae Stop, named after the nearby Hokkaidō Sapporo Normal School, was renamed Gakugei-daigaku-mae on 24 March 1950 after the school was reorganised into the new-system Gakugei University, double-tracked in 1951, renamed Kyōiku-daigaku-mae on 1 May 1966, Nishi-Tonden-dōri on 1 May 1987 after Hokkaidō University of Education's Sapporo campus relocated and finally Chūō-toshokan-mae on 15 March 1991 when the Sapporo Municipal Central Library moved into the campus's former site — the platform and crossover were also shifted east about 50 m to face the new library. The stop number SC12 was assigned on 1 April 2015, and on 20 December 2019 the outer-loop boarding island was moved further east as part of a renovation.

Chūō-toshokan-mae has been renamed four times since 1931, each rename mirroring a change in the neighbouring institution: from Hokkaidō Sapporo Normal School to its successors and finally to the present Sapporo Municipal Central Library, with the stop and its crossover physically shifted about 50 m east in 1991 to line up with the relocated library.