History
Shoko Center-iriguchi opened on 1 September 1960 as Inokuchi-byoin-mae ('Inokuchi Hospital Front'), the same year Hiroden's Miyajima Line car shed was transferred from Koi to this site and rebranded as Arate Depot. Around 1971 the stop was renamed Arate-shako-mae ('Arate Depot Front'); it took its present name Shoko Center-iriguchi (literally 'Entrance to the Industrial-Commercial Centre') on 1 November 1979. Ahead of the November 1990 opening of the Alpark shopping centre, the station was relocated slightly south-west on 30 November 1989 and connected to a pedestrian deck leading to Alpark and the adjoining JR Shin-Inokuchi Station. Around 2009 one of the two crossover tracks west of the station was removed. The station carries number M24.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Shoko Center-iriguchi is directly connected by overpass to the adjacent JR Shin-Inokuchi Station on the Sanyo Main Line, and is the western anchor of a moving-walkway link to Alpark; the down-side platform retains a section with a higher floor level — a vestige of the high-platform 'railway' (not 'tram') cars that once ran through-services on the Miyajima Line.