History
Yonejimaguchi Station is a Manyosen Takaoka Kidō Line tram stop straddling Yonejima and Ogino in Takaoka, Toyama, and the only stop on the line where trains stable overnight. It opened on 10 April 1948 as a Toyama Chihō Railway intermediate stop on the new Jitetsu-Takaoka (today Takaoka) to Fushiki-kō section. On 1 April 1951 it became a junction with the new Yonejimaguchi–Shin-Minato section, and Yonejimaguchi–Fushiki-kō was redesignated the Fushiki Line; the Fushiki Line was abolished on 1 September 1971. The station passed to Kaetsunō Railway on 1 April 1959, to Manyosen on 1 April 2002, and was given the byname "Albis Yonejima-mae" on 1 June 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Yonejimaguchi appeared as a film location in Kadokawa's 1978 release "Yasei no Shōmei" (Proof of the Wild) — a fight scene with motorbike gangs was shot just in front of the depot.