Kaigan-dori

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

Kaigan-dori opened on 1 December 1950, but the Ujina Line had already had a stop on this site for decades before that. When the original Ujina Line extension reached this district in 1915, the line ran south along the west embankment of the Ujina district and turned east along Kaigan-dori to the Ujina Pier, where the line ended at Ujina Station. In 1935 the line was relocated onto the present alignment along Ujina-dōri and Kaigan-dōri from the opposite direction, and the original Ujina Station was abolished; a new stop, Ujina-sanbashi-mae ('Ujina-Pier Front'), opened in front of the pier the same day. That stop was abolished in 1942, and when it was restored on 1 December 1950 the name was changed to Kaigan-dori ('Coast Road'). Safety zones were added on 31 August 1994 in the wake of the Ujina 3-chōme hit-and-run, and on 31 August 2002 the stop was moved roughly 100 metres towards Ujina 5-chōme in connection with the National Route 2 Hiroshima South Road and Hiroshima Expressway Route 3 works. The site it moved to had itself been the location of a temporary Keirinjo-iriguchi stop, open only on Hiroshima Velodrome race days from around 1952 until it was abolished when Kaigan-dori was relocated onto the spot. The platforms are arranged opposite each other on a combined-track street alignment, with the down-side towards Hiroshima Port on the east and the up-side towards Minami-machi 6-chōme on the west, with shelter over almost their whole length and a crosswalk to the south. The stop carries number U16.

On Hiroshima Minato Yume-Hanabi (port fireworks) days each July, the crossover at the Hiroshima Port end of the stop is used to terminate special-event tram services here and reverse them back northwards; the normally unstaffed stop is then heavily staffed.