History
Minami-machi 6-chome opened on 27 December 1935 as Minami-machi when the Ujina Line section between Senbaikyoku-mae (the former Miyukibashi-higashizume) and Ujina was relocated to a new alignment along Ujina-dori. An older stop named Miyukibashi-higashizume had stood on the original 1915 alignment along the western embankment of the Kyobashi-gawa: it acted as the eastern foot of the foot-link across Miyuki Bridge before the tram-only bridge of 1919, and was renamed Senbaikyoku-mae around 1927 after the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau (later Japan Tobacco's Hiroshima factory) that stood next to it. When the present alignment opened in 1935 the Senbaikyoku-mae stop was abolished. The stop took its present name through a chain of renamings: Minami-machi 3-chome from the December 1944 Hijiyama Line junction opening; Senbaikyoku-mae again shortly after the war; Senbai-kosha-mae around 1949; Minami-machi 3-chome around 1962; and finally Minami-machi 6-chome from around 1 May 1971. The 6 August 1945 atomic bombing suspended service; the Ujina Line Dentetsu-mae - Mukoujina-guchi section reopened as double-track on 18 August 1945 and the Hijiyama Line on 1 July 1948. Station numbers U9 (Ujina) and H9 (Hijiyama) were assigned in October 1996 and unified to U09 on 3 August 2025. A platform shelter was added to the Hijiyama Line platform in September 2008.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Minami-machi 6-chome is one of the very few delta-junction tram stops in Japan, with three sides of track meeting at the Minami-machi intersection; until the new Circular Line started on 28 March 2026, the west-to-north leg of the delta had been used only for non-revenue movements (and once for a special-occasion ring service during the 1958 Hiroshima Reconstruction Exposition).