History
Minami-machi 2-chome opened on 27 December 1944 with the rest of the Hijiyama Line. It was suspended on 1 February 1945 during the Pacific War and reopened on 1 July 1948 after restoration of the Hijiyama Line following the atomic bombing. Station number H8 was assigned in October 1996 and the number was changed to H05 on 3 August 2025. The two platforms sit on a combined-track street alignment in a staggered north-south layout, with the up-platform towards Inari-machi on the north and the down-platform towards Minami-machi 6-chome on the south. The station serves a residential and small-shop neighbourhood with the Hiroshima Gas head office to the west and the Kyobashi-gawa river bank a short walk further.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Among the historical buildings within walking distance of Minami-machi 2-chome are the Hiroshima Army Clothing Depot (広島陸軍被服支廠), a brick-built late-Meiji military supply complex whose surviving warehouses are now a Hiroshima Prefectural cultural-property site.