History
Nisseki-byoin-mae opened on 23 November 1912 as Koto-shihan-mae ('Higher Normal School Front') when the Ujina Line first ran between Kamiya-cho and Miyuki-bashi, named for the Hiroshima Higher Normal School that then stood beside the platforms. After the Hiroshima University of Literature and Science was established in 1929 and absorbed the Higher Normal School as its affiliated section, the stop was renamed Daigaku-mae ('University Front') around that time. The Hiroshima University of Literature and Science was incorporated into the new Hiroshima University post-war and abolished in 1962; in 1964 the stop was renamed Hiroshima-Daigaku-mae. After most of the university's faculties relocated to a new campus in Higashi-hiroshima City, the stop was renamed for a third time on 1 November 2001 to Nisseki-byoin-mae after the adjoining Hiroshima Red Cross & Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital, with new short-running services terminating here from the same date. The stop was suspended after the 6 August 1945 atomic bombing and reopened — initially as single-track — on 12 September 1945. In March 1934 the stop had been relocated 100 metres towards Kamiya-cho to its present site. Station number U6 was assigned in October 1996; designated a transfer stop on 1 August 2003 together with the neighbouring Hiroden-honsha-mae; the number became U06 on 3 August 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Nisseki-byoin-mae's three names trace a hundred-year arc of Hiroshima's institutional landscape: it began as Koto-shihan-mae (Higher Normal School), became Daigaku-mae and then Hiroshima-Daigaku-mae once the university succeeded it, and was finally renamed for the Hiroshima Red Cross & Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital after the university moved most of its faculties out to Higashi-hiroshima.