History
Kamiya-cho-nishi is the west-side platform of Hiroden's Kamiya-cho stop, which opened on 23 November 1912 as the western terminus of the Ujina Line and a Main Line intermediate stop when both lines opened simultaneously at the Kamiya-cho crossroads in Motomachi, Naka-ku. Originally the platforms sat inside the delta of track at the centre of the intersection; they were later moved to the east and west sides. The stop was suspended after the 6 August 1945 atomic bombing, with the Sakan-machi - Hatchobori Main Line section reopening on 7 September and the Ujina Line Kamiya-cho - Dentetsu-mae section on 12 September; through-running between the two lines resumed on 7 January 1946. On 1 November 2001 the east and west platforms were given distinct names — Kamiya-cho-higashi (east) and Kamiya-cho-nishi (west) — and on 20 April 2003 the stop was designated a transfer stop. The single shared station number M9 was split on 3 August 2025 in conjunction with the Ekimae-ohashi route reorganisation: Higashi became M07 and Nishi M08.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Kamiya-cho is one of the only Hiroden stops where pointwork is controlled by an automated route-setting system (ARC), introduced in 1998 because so many trains with different destinations pass through that the usual pantograph-on-contactor method would risk operational deadlock; the former signal cabin nicknamed 'Tori-no-su' (Bird's Nest) on the north-east corner of the intersection was relocated to the north-west corner when the underground Kamiya-cho Shareo mall was built.