History
Kōkandō-mae Station (C06) is a Toyama Chihō Railway tram stop in Nakanoshin-machi 1- and 2-chōme, Toyama City, on prefectural road 43. Opened on 1 September 1913 as a Toyama Electric Tramway stop, it was transferred to the Toyama City Tramway on 1 July 1920, joined Toyama Chihō Railway on 1 January 1943, was suspended on 2 August 1945 by the Toyama Air Raid and restored 14 January 1946. The opposed platforms straddle a road intersection in a staggered (chidori-shiki) arrangement.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The name comes from Kōkandō, a famous Toyama medicine wholesaler whose roots reach back to the Edo period; the company headquarters faces the stop and gives the station its identity.