History
Koami-cho opened on 8 December 1912 when the Main Line between Kamiya-cho and Koi came into service, located in Sakai-cho 2-chome, Naka-ku. The stop was suspended on 10 June 1944 during the Pacific War; it reopened on the Koi - Koami-cho section on 15 August 1945, days after the 6 August atomic bombing, and the Koami-cho - Dobashi section followed on 19 August. With the neighbouring Dobashi stop only about 200 metres away and the stop's structure unusually simple (no protected platforms, just a marked area on the road), abolition was considered in the 1970s but was overturned by petitions from local residents. Station number M14 was assigned in October 1996 and changed to M13 on 3 August 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Koami-cho is the only Hiroden stop without a fenced boarding island; the surrounding street is only 15 metres wide, so the boarding zone is simply a yellow-green area outlined in white on the road surface, and on-board announcements remind passengers to mind the step. With no platform side suitable for posting timetables, all signs and route maps for both directions are mounted on a utility pole on the down-side boarding zone.