History
Funairi-minami opened on 20 June 1944 as Funairi-minami-machi when Hiroden's Eba Line was extended from Funairi-hon-machi. It was renamed Eba-guchi ('Eba Entrance') on 1 November 1947 when the Eba Line resumed service after the war, then Grand-guchi ('Sports-Ground Entrance') around January 1954 when a new Eba-guchi stop opened further south, the new name referring to the Hiroshima Prefectural General Sports Grounds in Kanon-shin-machi. Around 1960 the stop was renamed back to Funairi-minami-machi; in 2002 the up-platform was relocated north of Hiroshima Municipal Road Kasumi-kogo Line and the down-platform was widened with a shelter added, all in conjunction with renovations at the Funairi-minami 6-chome intersection. On 15 February 2013 Route 9 was extended from Hatchobori to Eba and began serving the stop, and in February 2014 further road-widening works rebuilt the down-platform. The stop took its present name Funairi-minami on 1 April 2019; Hiroden gave the reason as 'the change of the place-name from which the stop's name was originally taken' (the place-name Funairi-minami-machi was renamed Funairi-minami on 1 September 1968). The platforms are now staggered rather than opposite, with the up-platform to the north and the down-platform to the south, both long enough for articulated cars. The stop carries number E05.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Funairi-minami's history of renaming is one of the most convoluted on the Hiroden city network: in 1944 it opened as Funairi-minami-machi, became Eba-guchi in 1947, Grand-guchi when a new Eba-guchi opened upstream around 1954, then back to Funairi-minami-machi around 1960, and finally Funairi-minami in 2019 — a span of five names over 75 years.