Kenchōmae (Toyama)

History

The stop opened on 1 September 1913 as Furutedemachi tramstop of the Toyama Electric Tramway. It passed to the City of Toyama on 1 July 1920, becoming a Toyama Municipal Tramway stop. The street alignment between Sakurabashi and the city centre was changed around 1934 and the stop was moved; it was relocated again to its present site on 10 September 1935 and renamed Kenchōmae before 1936. On 1 January 1943 the line was transferred to the new Toyama Chihō Railway, and the stop closed on 2 August 1945 in the Toyama air-raid. Service resumed on 15 March 1949 when the Toyama-Ekimae to Hatagomachi section was restored. On 13 March 2014 the stop was made barrier-free with a sloped access and a 12-metre shelter over the platforms.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.

Notes

The stop sits on a section of in-street tram track within the Toyama prefectural government quarter, and its surroundings are dominated by government and public offices. In March 1997 the system briefly extended the No. 1 route from Minami-Toyama-Ekimae to terminate at Kenchōmae rather than Toyama-Ekimae and a turnback crossover was installed on the Daigaku-mae side of the stop; the operation reverted to a Toyama-Ekimae turnback in the December 2001 timetable change and the crossover was later removed.