History
Hiroden-Nishi-Hiroshima Station (M18) is an interchange tram stop on the Hiroden Main Line and Miyajima Line, in Nishi-ku, Hiroshima, opposite JR West's Nishi-Hiroshima Station. The Main Line reached here on 8 December 1912 as its western terminus, originally Koi Station; the Miyajima Line opened from here on 22 August 1922 as Koi-machi Station, then renamed Nishi-Hiroshima Station on 22 August 1931. The Main Line resumed Nishi-Tenmachō service on 9 August 1945 — three days after the atomic bombing. The two separate Koi (Main Line) and Nishi-Hiroshima (Miyajima Line) stations were relocated to their present site in May 1957. The Nishi-Hiroshima Miyajima-Line stop was renamed Hiroden-Nishi-Hiroshima on 1 October 1969, and the two stops were finally consolidated under the name Hiroden-Nishi-Hiroshima (Koi) on 1 November 2001.
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
What is today a single Hiroden-Nishi-Hiroshima station was historically two separate stops: a road-running 'Koi' on the Main Line (from 1912) and a dedicated-track 'Nishi-Hiroshima' on the Miyajima Line (from 1922). The two were operated separately for nearly 90 years until they were formally merged on 1 November 2001.