History
The current tram stop, located on the west bank of the Jinzū River in Gofuku-Suehirochō, Toyama City, sits on a stretch of route-44 prefectural road and is numbered C21. It originated as Shin-Ōhashi-Nishizume tram stop when the connecting Etchū Electric Tramway (the later Imizu Line) reached the site in 1926 and opened Rentaibashi Station (renamed Shintoyama in 1934); the city-tram stop was renamed Toyama-Ōhashi-Nishi-Zume on 10 April 1937, then renamed Shin-Toyama-eki-mae at an undocumented date. When the Imizu Line was abandoned in 1980 the stop was renamed Shin-Toyama, then re-relocated about 120 m west to Gofuku-Kōsaten East and given two opposed sheltered platforms when the new Toyama-Ōhashi bridge opened on 24 March 2012. Naming-rights renamings followed: Toyama Toyopet Honsha-mae (Gofuku Suehirochō) Station from 14 March 2015, then Toyota Mobility Toyama G-Square Gofuku-mae (Gofuku Suehirochō) Station from 1 January 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
By the 2021 renaming the stop's name reads 32 kana characters — long enough to reclaim from Tōji-in/Ritsumeikan University's tram stop the record for the longest station name in Japan, a title it had already held under the 2015 Toyama Toyopet Honsha-mae name (24 kana, 17 characters) before it was overtaken on 20 March 2020.