Kusatsu-minami

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Kusatsu-minami Station opened on 6 April 1924 as Arate Station, one of four intermediate stops added when Hiroden's Miyajima Line was extended from Kusatsu-machi to Hatsukaichi-machi. The stop was renamed Chuo-uoichiba-mae ('Central Fish-Market Front') on 1 September 1951; it was later renamed Chuo-ichiba-mae ('Central Market Front') at an unrecorded date after April 1976, and finally given its present name Kusatsu-minami ('South Kusatsu') on 1 November 1979. The station is a ground-level 2-platform / 2-track stop, with the southbound platform towards Hiroden-miyajima-guchi on the south side and the northbound platform towards Hiroden-nishi-hiroshima on the north side, both spanned overhead by the Kusatsu-Numata Road; a level crossing sits on the Hiroden-nishi-hiroshima side of the station. The station carries number M23.

Kusatsu-minami has carried three earlier names — Arate (1924) → Chuo-uoichiba-mae (1951) → Chuo-ichiba-mae (after April 1976) → Kusatsu-minami (1979) — the middle two taken from the Hiroshima Central Wholesale Market that stands near the station; the original Arate name lives on as 'Hiroden Arate', the operator's nearby tram-shed.