History
Dobashi Stop (M12) is on Hiroshima Electric Railway in Sakai-machi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, and is the junction where the Eba Line branches off the Main Line. The main-line stop opened on 8 December 1912 as Dobashi-suji Stop (土橋筋停留場) when the line reached Koi; it was renamed Dobashi around 1917. The Eba Line opened to Funairi-honmachi on 26 December 1943, and a year later — on 26 December 1944 — the Sakanmachi–Dobashi connection was rerouted via Tōkaichi-machi to eliminate a narrow, twisted southerly section, putting Dobashi on the modern routing. The stop was suspended after the 6 August 1945 atomic bombing and restored in stages between 19 August (from Koami-chō) and 21 August 1945 (to Tōkaichi-machi). Eba services resumed on 1 November 1947. PSDs are not used; the station was given station number M13 in October 1996, fare collection by attendants was abolished from 1 July 2022, and the station number was changed to M12 on 3 August 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
When the line was rerouted in December 1944 to send Sakanmachi–Dobashi traffic via Tōkaichi-machi, the old south-loop route between Dobashi and Sakanmachi was abolished outright: it ran through unusually narrow streets full of tight curves that bottlenecked tram operations, so removing it was treated as a pure operational gain rather than a service loss.