History
Chuden-mae opened on 23 November 1912 as Seito-bashi on the day Hiroden's Ujina Line first ran between Kamiya-cho and Miyuki-bashi, the stop name taken from a bridge that once spanned the Seito (Seido) River near the site of the present Peace Boulevard - Shirakami-sha intersection. The stop was renamed Shirakami-mae around 1919 and Shirakami-sha-mae at an unrecorded date after the war. After the 6 August 1945 atomic bombing, the Dentetsu-mae - Kamiya-cho section reopened as a single-track on 12 September 1945. The stop was relocated some 60 metres south of its post-war position on 22 March 1971 and renamed Chuden-mae for the head office of the Chugoku Electric Power Company that adjoins the eastern platform. A train-approach indicator was installed in 1977 and the platform shelter runs the full length of the platforms. Station number U3 was assigned in October 1996 and changed to U03 on 3 August 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Chuden-mae preserves a thread of Hiroshima's lost riverside topography: its first name Seito-bashi, and the original names of two of its Ujina Line neighbours (Takanobashi and the present Shiyakusho-mae), all came from bridges that once spanned the Seito (Seido) River — now buried — and of those three names only Takanobashi has survived to the present.