History
Hiroshima Station is a major terminal in Minami-ku, Hiroshima, operated by JR West, and the calling point for every San'yō Shinkansen service. The station was originally reached by the San'yō Railway in 1894 and absorbed into the nationalised network in 1906. Shinkansen service began with the Okayama-Hakata extension on 10 March 1975; until that point the present Shinkansen-side entrance was known locally as the "north" entrance. A 2017 reconstruction of the south side eliminated the longstanding bottleneck that forced south-entrance passengers to pass over platform 1 to reach other tracks, and a new concourse-level south entrance opened on 28 May 2017.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Even after the Shinkansen opened in 1975, many Hiroshima locals continued to refer to the Shinkansen entrance as the "north" entrance, the name it carried for eighty-one years.