History
Kusatsu opened on 22 August 1922 as Kusatsu-machi, the terminus of Hiroshima Gas Electric Tramway's new Miyajima Line out of Kogichō (about 2.8 km west), serving an old port and fish market with long-standing demand for rail freight into Hiroshima city. The line was extended a further 9 km to Hatsukaichi-machi on 6 April 1924. The stop was renamed Kusatsu sometime between 1952 and 1954 (exact date not recorded). The station building burned down on 17 February 1971 and the side track once used to load fresh seafood was removed when that traffic ended.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Until the 1971 fire the station had a separate low-floor platform on a side track for the tram cars that ran in from the city centre to load seafood; that platform sloped down to meet the main high-floor Miyajima Line platform.