Funairi-saiwai-cho

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Funairi-saiwai-cho opened on 20 June 1944 when the Eba Line was extended from Funairi-hon-machi to Funairi-minami-machi (today's Funairi-minami). The Pacific War led to its suspension on 7 August 1945, the day after Hiroshima was struck by the atomic bomb; when the Eba Line resumed service on 1 November 1947 this stop was instead abolished, and it returned to service only more than a decade later, on 1 November 1959. In March 2008 the down-side platform was rebuilt to handle articulated cars, and from December 2008 to March 2009 the stop's section to Eba was used as a trial section for a public-transport priority (LRT preemption) system. On 15 February 2013 Route 9 was extended from Hatchobori to Eba and the stop received direct service. The two platforms sit on a combined-track street alignment and are staggered north-south across the intersection. The stop carries number E03.

Funairi-saiwai-cho is unusual on the Eba Line for having been abolished outright in 1947 — rather than merely suspended, as the line's other stops were after the atomic bombing — and it did not return to service until 1 November 1959, twelve years to the day after the rest of the line reopened.