Kenbyoin-mae

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Kenbyoin-mae opened on 27 December 1935 as Koryo-chugaku-mae ('Koryo Middle School Front') when the Ujina Line was relocated onto Ujina-dori between Miyukibashi-higashizume and Ujina, named for the pre-war Koryo Middle School that then stood nearby. After the post-war Hiroshima Prefectural Hospital opened on this site in 1948 as the successor to the public Hiroshima Hospital — itself destroyed by the atomic bombing — the stop was renamed Kenbyoin-mae ('Prefectural-Hospital Front') around that same year. Platform improvements were completed on 15 December 2014, extending the down-platform shelter and replacing the safety fences on both platforms. The platforms are staggered north-south across the intersection, with the down-side (towards Hiroshima Port) on the north and the up-side (towards Minami-machi 6-chome) on the south, both able to handle articulated cars. The stop carries number U11.

The road that runs south-east from Kenbyoin-mae towards the present prefectural hospital roughly traces the pre-Meiji coastline of Hiroshima Bay: everything south of it was originally sea, reclaimed during the construction of Ujina Port from the late 19th century onward, and the road surface still falls gently from the stop towards Ujina, marking where the embankment used to be.