History
Hiroden-honsha-mae opened on 23 November 1912 as Hatsudensho-mae ('Powerplant Front') when the Ujina Line first ran between Kamiya-cho and Miyuki-bashi for the line's then-operator Hiroshima Electric Tramway, the name taken from the company's Senda-machi power station that adjoined the platforms. After the 1917 merger that produced Hiroshima Gas Electric Tramway, the area housed the merged firm's tramway operations division and the stop was renamed Dentetsu-mae ('Tramway-Front') around 1927. The original Senda-machi power station shut in 1934 and was demoted to a substation a year later. After Hiroshima Electric Railway (Hiroden) was spun off as a separate operator in 1942 it placed its head office on the same Senda-machi block. The 6 August 1945 atomic bombing destroyed parts of the head office and stopped all of Hiroden's city trams; the Senda-machi substation came back online first, and on 18 August 1945 the section between this stop and Mukoujina reopened as double-track. The Kamiya-cho-bound section followed on 12 September as a single-track and was restored to double-track by mid-December. The stop was renamed Hiroden-honsha-mae on 16 March 1958 to track the new 'Hiroden' abbreviation the company had adopted. Station number U7 was assigned in October 1996, the platform shelter was given a European-style redesign on 9 July 2012 (since dropped in the 2018 refurbishment that widened the stop to 3 m × 54 m and added a waiting room on 28 March 2018), and the number became U07 on 3 August 2025. The stop is a transfer stop designated jointly with Nisseki-byoin-mae since 1 August 2003.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
From 2012 to 2013, in commemoration of 100 years since the line opened, a refurbished Hiroden Type 70 tramcar parked next to the head office was operated as a railway-themed restaurant called 'Trans-Verte Express'; after the centenary programme ended the restaurant closed in March 2013 and the tramcar was later relocated to THE OUTLETS HIROSHIMA.