History
Hasumachi (Baba-Kinen-Kōen-mae) Station is on the Toyama Chihō Railway Toyama-kō Line in Hasumachi 1-chōme, Toyama, with station number C35. It opened on 23 July 1924 as Kōtōgakkō-mae Station of the Fugan Railway. After takeovers by Toyama Electric Railway (1941) and Toyama Chihō Railway (1943), the line was nationalised on 1 June 1943, and the station was renamed Hasumachi. Until the line was converted to LRT, it was the only staffed station on the Toyama-kō Line apart from the seasonal Keirinjō-mae stop, and it was the focus of the 2001 unstaffing controversy. It came under JR West on 1 April 1987, was withdrawn from JR West on 1 March 2006, reopened as Toyama Light Rail on 29 April 2006, reverted to Toyama Chihō Railway on 22 February 2020, and was renamed to its present form on 21 March 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Until the LRT conversion in 2006, Hasumachi was the only staffed station on the Toyama-kō Line (excluding the seasonal Keirinjō-mae). When JR West announced on 15 November 2000 that the station would be unstaffed from 3 March 2001, citing falling passenger numbers, local opposition cited the elderly's reliance on it and its role on the way to school, but the unstaffing went ahead.