History
Kanayama-cho opened on 23 November 1912 as Yamaguchi-cho on the day Hiroden's Main Line first ran between Hiroshima Station and Kamiya-cho. The stop was suspended after the 6 August 1945 atomic bombing; the Hatchobori - Yamaguchi-cho section was restored on 1 October 1945 and the Yamaguchi-cho - Hiroshima Station section on 11 October that year, completing reopening of the Main Line. On 1 April 1965 Hiroshima City renamed the surrounding district from Yamaguchi-cho to Kanayama-cho and the stop's name was changed to match. Around 1973-74 platform-extension work was undertaken to accommodate larger cars and in April 1988 a platform shelter was added. Station number M5 was assigned in October 1996 and the number was changed to M03 on 3 August 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Until 2000 the south side of the stop housed the Hiroshima Stock Exchange, and even after the exchange was abolished the immediate area has kept its character as a financial district, with the head office of Momiji Bank and the Hiroshima branches of several major banks clustered around the platform.