History
Funairi-kawaguchi-cho opened on 20 June 1944 with the extension of the Eba Line from Funairi-hon-machi to Funairi-minami-machi. Operating less than a year, it was suspended on 1 February 1945; in August that year the 6 August atomic bombing brought down the rest of Hiroden's city tram network. The Eba Line was restored in 1947 and this stop reopened on 1 November 1947. In March 2008 platform-lengthening work allowed articulated cars to call, and on 15 February 2013 Route 9 was extended from Hatchobori to Eba and began serving the stop directly; refurbishment work — extending the platform shelter by some 20 metres and widening the platforms — completed on 18 March 2013. The two platforms are arranged opposite each other in relative-island formation on a combined-track street alignment, with the down-side towards Eba on the east and the up-side towards Dobashi on the west. The stop carries number E04.
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
Funairi-kawaguchi-cho gets unusually heavy student traffic because Hiroshima Municipal Funairi High School (an academically prominent feeder for the area) is close by, and the 2013 refurbishment specifically extended the platform shelter by some 20 metres and widened the platforms in response to that demand.