Ujina 3-chome

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Ujina 3-chome opened on 27 December 1935 as Jitchome ('10-chome') when the Ujina Line was relocated onto its present alignment. It was renamed Ujina-jitchome ('Ujina 10-chome') on 30 March 1960, and took its present name Ujina 3-chome on 1 September 1968 following a change of the local place-names; despite the stop's name, no place-name 'Ujina' has ever formally existed, leaving the stop's name inconsistent with the surrounding place-names. The platforms sit on a combined-track street alignment, offset diagonally from one another, with the down-side towards Hiroshima Port on the north and the up-side towards Hiroshima Station on the south; the up-platform is short and articulated cars must close the rearmost doors during passenger handling. Before April 1990 the stop had no island-style safety zones at all — passengers boarded directly from the road surface, the tracks running along the narrow Ujina-dori — but after a hit-and-run that injured an alighting passenger in October 1988, safety zones were built and completed in April 1990. The stop carries number U13.

Ujina 3-chome's transition from at-grade boarding to proper island safety zones was driven not by a routine upgrade but by an October 1988 hit-and-run that injured a passenger who had just alighted; the resulting safety zones were completed at the stop in April 1990.