History
Kenbyoin-mae opened on 27 December 1935 as Koryo-chugaku-mae ('Koryo Middle School Front') when the Ujina Line was relocated onto Ujina-dori between Miyukibashi-higashizume (the former Senbaikyoku-mae) and Ujina, named for the pre-war Koryo Middle School that then stood nearby. After the post-war Hiroshima Prefectural Hospital opened on this site in 1948 as the successor to the public Hiroshima Hospital — itself destroyed by the atomic bombing — the stop was renamed Kenbyoin-mae ('Prefectural-Hospital Front') around that same year. Platform improvements were completed on 15 December 2014, extending the down-platform shelter and replacing the safety fences on both platforms. The platforms are staggered north-south across the intersection, with the down-side (towards Hiroshima Port) on the north and the up-side (towards Minami-machi 6-chome) on the south, both able to handle articulated cars. The stop carries number U11.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The road that runs north-east from Kenbyoin-mae towards the present prefectural hospital roughly traces the pre-Meiji coastline of Hiroshima Bay: everything south of the stop was originally sea, reclaimed during the construction of Ujina Port from the late 19th century onward, and the now-residential street still shows a gentle downhill slope from the stop towards Ujina marking where the embankment used to be.