Kobashi

Weekday departures: 292/day · Sat & holiday departures: 284/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:02 / 22:21

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (23)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 26 April 2026.

• Higashiyama Main Line: Saidaiji-cho / Okayama Arts and Crafts Theater Harenowa-mae ⇄ Chunagon

Kobashi Stop opened on 9 July 1923 with the opening of the Saidaijichō–Higashiyama section of the Okayama Electric Tramway Higashiyama Main Line. The stop is located in Kobashichō 1-chōme and 2-chōme, Naka-ku, Okayama City, with stop number H07. Because the road is too narrow for proper platforms, Kobashi has no boarding island — only a painted safety-zone outline on the carriageway, with an illuminated stop-name sign on a nearby utility pole and the timetable displayed at the roadside. Passengers wait on the pavement and cross the road to board only after a tram has arrived.

On 11 November 2001 a car struck a group of high-school students waiting inside the painted safety-zone outline, injuring multiple students; calls for improvement were made but the road was too narrow for proper platforms or mound-up boarding zones, and single-tracking was ruled out due to rush-hour needs. As a workaround, a roofed waiting area was built on the grounds of the Chūgoku Bank, and trams now play an in-car "Mind the cars" announcement when stopping at Kobashi and similarly-built Chūnagon Stop.