History
Miyuki-bashi opened on 23 November 1912 as the southern terminus of Hiroden's Ujina Line on the west bank of the Kyobashi-gawa, at the western foot of Miyuki Bridge. Because the existing road bridge had no room for tram tracks and a new tram-only bridge across the wide Kyobashi-gawa would have required a long crossing, the operator built southward in two disconnected stages: on 3 April 1915 the section from the east bank to Ujina opened, with passengers walking across the bridge between the two halves. The push to finish that southern leg was driven by the Hiroshima Prefectural Product Exhibition then being prepared near Kamiya-cho and Ujina — the southern section opened only three days before the show. A tram-only bridge across the Kyobashi-gawa finally followed on 25 May 1919, joining the two halves into one through-line; that bridge was replaced in 1931 by a road/tram combined Miyuki-bashi (the second), itself replaced in 1990 by the present (third) Miyuki-bashi. The stop was suspended on 10 June 1944 and reopened on 18 August 1945. Station number became U05 on 3 August 2025 (mis-stated as U05 in the JA article; the stop is U08).
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
Miyuki-bashi is one of the Hiroden stops whose name lives on in the 'Tetsudo Musume' character series — the surname of 'Takano Miyuki' takes its first half from neighbouring Takanobashi and its second from this stop.