Hakushima (Hiroden)

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Hakushima opened on 23 November 1912 as the terminus of the Hiroden Hakushima Line, then laid along a road built over Hiroshima Castle's filled-in outer moat with its end at the Chūgoku Postal Bureau intersection. The line and stop were knocked out of service on 6 August 1945 by the atomic bombing. During post-war replanning the Hakushima Line tracks were shifted east onto the new Hakushima-dōri arterial; service resumed only on 10 June 1952, when the line was extended a further 100 m to the Jōhoku-dōri intersection and the stop was relocated and renamed Hakushima-shūten ("Hakushima Terminus"). It reverted to Hakushima on 30 March 1960. With the introduction of one-man operation on the line on 1 December 1969 the terminal track was shortened by 9 m and the platform was rebuilt on the west side. Station number "W5" was assigned in October 1996 and changed to "W04" on 3 August 2025.

The platform was moved from the east side of the track to the west side in 1969 because one-man-operated trams in Japan only allow passengers to alight from the left-hand door.