Kochi-Ekimae

Weekday departures: 105/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 106/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:19 / 22:05

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (12)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 26 April 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• JR Matsuyama Station Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• JR Matsuyama Station Line: Kochi-bashi

Kōchi-Ekimae is the northern terminus of the Tosaden Kōtsū Ekimae Line — the name used for the Kōchi-Ekimae–Harimayabashi section of the Sanbashi Line — and stands in front of JR Shikoku's Kōchi Station, meeting the east–west station building at right angles from the south. Tosa Electric (土佐電気) opened the stop on 16 February 1928; company mergers transferred it to Tosa Kōtsū in 1941 and to Tosa Electric Railway in 1948, and it passed to Tosaden Kōtsū on 1 October 2014 when Tosa Electric Railway merged with Kōchi Kenkōtsū and Tosaden Dream Service. The JR station above was raised onto a viaduct on 26 February 2008 and its third-generation building opened the same day; with the redevelopment of the station's south side the tram stop was shifted about 30 metres north, coming into partial use on 14 February 2009 and into full use with three platforms and two tracks on 11 March 2009.

Kōchi Station, the JR Shikoku station the tram stop serves, was raised onto a viaduct on 26 February 2008, and on the same day it became the first station in the JR Shikoku network to be fitted with automatic ticket gates; Takamatsu followed on 1 June 2008 and Matsuyama on 29 September 2024. The tram stop itself was brought straight into the station forecourt in 2001, having until then been linked to the station only by a footbridge that made the interchange inconveniently long.