Hacchobaba

Weekday departures: 337/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 358/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:04 / 23:18

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (30)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Kengun Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Kengun Line: Shogyokoko-mae ⇄ Kuwamizu Kosaten

Hatchō-baba opened on 16 April 1959 on the Kumamoto City tram Kengun Line as stop 21, served by both A- and B-system trams.

The "Hatchō-baba" (eight-chō horse-training ground) in the stop's name is the popular name for the cedar avenue leading to Kengun Shrine — officially Kengun-Jinja Sugi-baba — said to have been planted by Katō Kiyomasa as a military training ground for warhorses.