History
Danbara 1-chome opened on 27 December 1944 as Ohata-machi together with the rest of the Hijiyama Line. Renamed Danbara-ohata-machi at an unrecorded date before 1969, the stop kept the name even after Hiroshima City abolished the Danbara-ohata-machi place-name in 1995; six years later, on 1 November 2001, it was renamed Danbara 1-chome to match. A safety zone came into use on 30 September 1974, station number H4 was assigned in October 1996, and the stop was temporarily suspended on 3 August 2025 for circular-route reconstruction. It reopened on 28 March 2026 as part of the new Circular Line with the new number L02.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Until the 1955-or-60s an additional Hiroden stop called Taisho-bashi sat just east of Danbara 1-chome on the same Hijiyama Line trackage, taking its name from the Taisho Bridge over the Kyobashi River; trams arriving from Matoba-cho now make a westward turn at the foot of Taisho-bashi and reach the present Danbara 1-chome stop.