History
Kusatsu-minami Station opened on 6 April 1924 as Arate Station, one of four intermediate stops added when Hiroden's Miyajima Line was extended from Kusatsu-machi to Hatsukaichi-machi. The stop was renamed Chuo-uoichiba-mae ('Central Fish-Market Front') on 1 September 1951 to reflect the post-war creation of the Hiroshima Central Wholesale Market on the reclaimed shoreline south of the station; it was later renamed Chuo-ichiba-mae ('Central Market Front') at an unrecorded date after April 1976, and finally given its present name Kusatsu-minami ('South Kusatsu') on 1 November 1979. The station is a ground-level 2-platform / 2-track stop, with the southbound platform towards Hiroden-miyajima-guchi on the south side and the northbound platform towards Hiroden-nishi-hiroshima on the north side, both spanned overhead by the Kusatsu-Numata Road; a level crossing sits on the western (Hiroden-nishi-hiroshima) side of the station. The station carries number M23.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Kusatsu-minami's three-step name history — Arate (1924) → Chuo-uoichiba-mae (1951) → Chuo-ichiba-mae → Kusatsu-minami (1979) — tracks the post-war creation of the Hiroshima Central Wholesale Market on land reclaimed from the sea south of the station; the original Arate name lives on as 'Hiroden Arate', the operator's nearby tram-shed.