Hanabatacho

Weekday departures: 363/day · Sat & holiday departures: 364/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:59 / 23:13

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (32)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026.

• Trunk Line: Kumamoto Castle / City Hall ⇄ Karashimacho

Hanabatachō opened on 1 August 1924 as Kōkaidō-mae Station (公会堂前停留場). On 1 March 1928 it was relocated and renamed Denwa-ka-mae (電話課前) before being renamed back to Kōkaidō-mae the following year. Subsequent renamings (date uncertain) took it through Oshiro-mae, then Kumamoto-jō Shimin-Kaikan-mae on 15 September 1961, then Kumamoto-jō-mae, and finally to Hanabatachō on 1 March 2011. The stop sits at number 9 on the Kumamoto City tram, served by both A- and B-system trams. The same incidents that hit the neighbouring Kumamoto-jō / Shiyakusho-mae stop in late 2024 and 2025 — a 31 December 2024 derailment, rail-gauge work on 15–16 January 2025, a 25 March 2025 collision, and rail loosening on 1 June 2025 — closed the Karashimachō – Suidōchō segment that includes Hanabatachō on each occasion.

NHK Kumamoto relocated from the former Chibajō-machi site to Hanabata-chō on 5 June 2017, putting the public broadcaster's prefectural station among the buildings immediately around the tram stop.