History
Ebisu-cho opened on 23 November 1912 as Kami-nagarekawa-cho on the day Hiroden's Main Line first ran between Hiroshima Station and Kamiya-cho, taking its name from the then-name of the surrounding district. It was renamed Nagarekawa-cho at an unrecorded later date and was suspended after the 6 August 1945 atomic bombing; the Hatchobori - Yamaguchi-cho section of the Main Line resumed service on 1 October 1945. Hiroshima City rezoned the district from Kami-nagare-cho to Ebisu-cho on 1 April 1965 and the stop's name was changed to match. Station number M6 was assigned in October 1996 and the number was changed to M04 on 3 August 2025. The platforms are dog-legged across the intersection, with the up-side toward Hiroshima Station on the western side and the down-side toward Kamiya-cho on the eastern side.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Ebisu-cho is one of the closest pairs on the entire Hiroden network, only 123 metres from neighbouring Hatchobori; the surrounding Yagenbori and Nagarekawa streets form the heart of Hiroshima's Shintenchi entertainment district, and when the Hiroshima Flower Festival or the Tokasan summer festival are held, the normally unstaffed stop gets temporary attendants.