History
Hiroden-Miyajima-guchi Station (M38) is the terminus of the Hiroden Miyajima Line in Miyajima-guchi 1-chōme, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima (the gateway to UNESCO-listed Itsukushima Shrine via the Miyajima ferries). It opened on 1 February 1931 as Densha-Miyajima Station when Hiroshima Gas & Electric Tramway extended the line from Shin-Miyajima, completing the Miyajima Line; the name distinguished it from the JGR's own Miyajima Station. The Hatsukaichi-to-here section was lifted to single track in July 1944 for wartime materials, restored to double in July 1950. Renamed Hiroden-Miyajima on 1 June 1961, then Hiroden-Miyajima-guchi on 1 November 2001 to mirror the JR station's earlier rename. On 2 July 2022 the station was relocated to the former Miyajima-guchi Momiji Honjin site beside the ferry terminal, switching to a four-platform stub layout with alphabet (A–F) bay labels.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
After the July 2022 relocation, Hiroden-Miyajima-guchi adopted alphabet (A through F) platform labels rather than the usual numbers, the same convention used at Hiroshima Port (since 2003) and the new Hiroshima Station terminus (August 2025), to prevent confusion with Hiroden's numbered route system (1-go-sen, 2-go-sen, and so on).