Shukkeien-mae

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Shukkeien-mae Station (W02) is a Hiroden Hakushima Line tram stop in Naka-ku, Hiroshima, serving the neighbouring Shukkei-en garden. When the Hakushima Line first opened in 1912, the stop here was called Senteimae, after Sentei, an alternative name for Shukkei-en; it stood at the point where the original alignment — laid along a road one street west of the present one — bent in a crank. The stop was suspended from February 1945, and the atomic bombing of 6 August 1945 put the whole Hakushima Line out of service. In the post-war reconstruction the line was relocated onto a newly built main road, Hakushima-dōri, which straightened the old crank away; when service resumed in 1952 Senteimae was abolished and Shukkeien-mae opened in its place on the new alignment.

Shukkeien-mae's 1912 predecessor was Senteimae Station — named for Sentei, an alternative name for the Shukkei-en garden — which stood where the line bent in a crank. When the Hakushima Line was rebuilt after the Second World War the crank was straightened away, Senteimae was abolished, and Shukkeien-mae opened on the new alignment in 1952.