History
Fukuro-machi opened on 23 November 1912 when Hiroden's Ujina Line first ran between Kamiya-cho and Miyuki-bashi. Service was abolished in May 1942 during the Pacific War and the stop was restored at an unrecorded date after the end of the war. Station number U2 was assigned in October 1996 and the number was changed to U02 on 3 August 2025. The two platforms are arranged in a staggered layout north-south across the carriageway, with the down-side towards Minami-cho on the north and the up-side towards Kamiya-cho on the south. Because of its proximity to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, on-board announcements towards Hiroshima Port refer to the stop as 'Peace Memorial Park Entrance' ('平和記念公園入口').
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Before the atomic bombing, a giant camphor tree (kusunoki) in the grounds of Kokutaiji temple stood beside the Fukuro-machi platform and became such a familiar local landmark — pictured on contemporary postcards as a 'Hiroshima sight' alongside the passing tram — that the loss of the tree to bomb-damage in August 1945 is mentioned in the station's own JA Wikipedia article.