History
Hijiyama-bashi opened on 27 December 1944 with the rest of the Hijiyama Line. Station number H6 was assigned in October 1996 and the number was changed to H03 on 3 August 2025. The stop sits in Hijiyama-honmachi, Minami-ku, with the Kyobashi River to the west and the Hijiyama Bridge — itself a bombing-survivor structure — immediately adjacent to the platforms; a hibaku stone marker, the 'Hiroshima Prefectural Road Origin Stone' (広島県道路元標), stands at the foot of the bridge. The opposite (western) bank is Naka-ku, residential in character; the eastern side is the southern foot of Mt. Hijiyama, with administrative facilities including the Hiroshima Prefectural Construction Bureau Hiroshima District Office and the Hiroshima Prefectural Food Industry Technology Centre clustered nearby. The two platforms are arranged opposite each other in relative-island formation on a combined-track street alignment, with the down-side platform towards Minami-machi 6-chome on the south and the up-side towards Hijiyama-shita on the north.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The Hijiyama Bridge beside the stop is one of Hiroshima's surviving bombing-era bridges, and at its foot stands the 'Hiroshima Prefectural Road Origin Stone' — itself a hibaku monument that marks the historical starting point of the prefecture's road system.