History
Shukkeien-mae Station (W02) is a Hiroden Hakushima Line tram stop in Naka-ku, Hiroshima, beside the Edo-period Shukkei-en daimyō garden. When the Hakushima Line first opened in 1912, an earlier stop called Senteimae (泉邸前停留場, using 縮景園's old name 泉邸) stood at a crank in the line west of here. The Hakushima Line was suspended from February 1945 and was further wrecked by the 6 August 1945 atomic bombing. In the post-war reconstruction the line was relocated onto a new road (Hakushima-dōri), the old crank was straightened, and on 1952 the original Senteimae stop was abolished and Shukkeien-mae was opened on the new alignment.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Shukkeien-mae's 1912 predecessor was Senteimae Station — named for the Edo-era alternative name 泉邸 of Shukkei-en garden — which stood on a crank in the line. When the Hakushima Line was rebuilt after WWII the crank was straightened away, Senteimae was abolished, and Shukkeien-mae opened on the new alignment in 1952.