History
Betsuin-mae Station (Y02) is a Hiroden Yokogawa Line tram stop in Tera-machi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima. It opened on 1 November 1917 with the original Yokogawa Line as Yokogawa-bashi Station, named for the dedicated tramway bridge crossing the Tenma River just to the north. It was renamed Betsuin-mae before 1921, after the nearby Hongan-ji Hiroshima Betsuin temple. Service was suspended on 6 August 1945 because of the atomic bombing, and the dedicated bridge was washed away by the 17 September 1945 Makurazaki Typhoon. Through-running to Yokogawa was restored on 18 December 1948, and in 1958 the bridge was replaced with the present road-shared Yokogawa-shinbashi.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Until 1958, the bridge over the Tenma River between Betsuin-mae and Yokogawa-itchōme was a dedicated tramway-only bridge with separate road bridges on either side; the present Yokogawa-shinbashi shared-road bridge replaced it that year.