History
Genbaku Dome-mae opened on 8 December 1912 as Yagura-shita Station when Hiroden's Main Line was extended west from Kamiya-cho to Koi, taking its name from the third yagura of Hiroshima Castle that had once stood here and a track-side substation that fed the city's tramway. The stop was renamed Aioi-bashi around 1929 after the nearby Aioi Bridge — whose distinctive T-shape would later be used as the aiming point for the 6 August 1945 atomic bombing, which destroyed the substation and the adjacent Industrial Promotion Hall. The stop had already been suspended since 10 June 1944; service was restored on 7 September 1945 on the Hatchobori - Sakan-machi section. To guide visitors to the preserved ruin and the Peace Memorial Park, the stop was renamed Genbaku Dome-mae on 16 December 1974; barrier-free works completed on 31 July 2006, the track in front of the stop was greened with turf on 23 March 2012 (later replaced with asphalt in June 2023 because the grass was hard to maintain), and the station number was changed from M10 to M09 on 3 August 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Trams stopping here play a chime modeled on the bell of the Memorial Cenotaph as part of the on-board announcement, and every 6 August at the moment of the bombing two preserved hibaku-densha cars are scheduled to pass each other at this stop in revenue service.