Chuden-mae

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Chuden-mae opened on 23 November 1912 as Seito-bashi, on the day Hiroden's Ujina Line first opened, the stop name taken from a bridge that once spanned the Seito (Seido) River near the site of the present Peace Boulevard - Shirakami-sha intersection, just south of Shirakami Shrine, where the original stop stood. The stop was renamed Shirakami-mae around 1919 and Shirakami-sha-mae at an unrecorded date after the war. After the 6 August 1945 atomic bombing, the Dentetsu-mae - Kamiya-cho section reopened as a single track on 12 September 1945. The stop was relocated some 60 metres south of its post-war position on 22 March 1971 and renamed Chuden-mae for the head office of the Chugoku Electric Power Company that adjoins it on the east. A train-approach indicator was installed in 1977 and the platform shelter runs the full length of the platforms. Station number U3 was assigned in October 1996 and changed to U03 on 3 August 2025.

Chuden-mae preserves a thread of Hiroshima's lost riverside topography: its original name, Seito-bashi, came from the bridge of that name over the Seito (Seido) River, a watercourse that once ran past the site and has since vanished, and the first stop stood roughly where that bridge had been, at what is now the Peace Boulevard - Shirakami-sha intersection.