History
Fukushima-cho opened on 8 December 1912 when Hiroden's Main Line was extended through to Koi, originally located further north on a route that ran in a straight line from Dobashi to Koi over two dedicated tram bridges across the Yamate and Fukushima rivers. The wider Ota River discharge channel works carried out between 1932 and the post-war period widened the Yamate into the present discharge channel and reclaimed the Fukushima River; the tram-only bridges were superseded by the new Shin-Koi-bashi combined road/tram bridge along Peace Boulevard further south. On 1 September 1964 the tracks were relocated onto this new alignment (down-line the same day, up-line on 7 September) and the stop moved with them to its present site. The stop was suspended on 6 August 1945 after the atomic bombing and reopened on 9 August on the Nishi-tenma-cho - Koi section; station number M18 was assigned in October 1996 and changed to M17 on 3 August 2025. The Nishi-ku ward office is a three-minute walk from the platforms, and the stop carries the secondary name 'Nishi-ku-yakusho-mae'.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Fukushima-cho is one of two Hiroden stops whose pre-1964 location lies entirely outside the present Main Line: the former alignment ran in a straight east-west line across two dedicated tram bridges across the Yamate and Fukushima rivers, both of which were superseded when the Ota River discharge channel works swept the entire neighbourhood south onto Peace Boulevard.