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Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Shiyakusho opened on 1 March 1954 as Okeyamachi after Furumachi, a 9 July 1920 stop on the original third-phase line over the Sakura-machi pass, was abolished when the line was re-graded with a cutting under Route 34. The stop was renamed Kōkaidō-mae in March 1963 after the Nagasaki Public Hall standing across the street. The hall, by then in poor condition, closed at the end of March 2015, and the stop was renamed Shiminkaikan on 1 August 2018, then again to Shiyakusho on 4 January 2023 after the new Nagasaki City Hall was completed nearby. On 1 July 2020 cross-line transfers became possible here, easing pressure on the previously sole transfer stop at Shinchi-Chūkagai. It is stop numbers 38 and 45 on the Hotarujaya and Sakura-machi Branch Lines.

Trams on route 3 have derailed five times at the junction beside the stop between 2007 and 2020 — including twice within five days in May 2007. Wear on the guard nose at the tip of the V-shaped nose rail was one cause of the third derailment, in October 2015; the countermeasure of lowering the guard nose to limit wear weakened the rail, and that design change is believed to have caused the fourth derailment, in June 2016.