History
Ujina 2-chome opened on 27 December 1935 as Josen-mae ('Women's College Front') when the Ujina Line was relocated onto its present alignment, named for the Hiroshima Women's College that then stood nearby. It was suspended in May 1942 and reopened in August 1945. Following the post-war education reform that replaced the women's college with what is now the Prefectural University of Hiroshima, the stop was renamed Joshidai-mae ('Women's University Front') around 1950. Around 1953 it became Ujina 13-chome, and on 1 September 1968 — after a place-name reform — it took its present name Ujina 2-chome, although there has never been a place-name 'Ujina' (only 'Ujina-kanda' and similar), making the stop name inconsistent with the surrounding place-names. Rush-hour through-running from this stop to Kusatsu Station began on 20 June 1958; a dedicated terminating service to this stop was restored on 11 April 2011 after autocross-over works completed in April 2011, and the stop has been a designated transfer stop since the same date. The platforms sit on a combined-track street alignment, staggered north-south, with the down-side towards Hiroshima Port on the north and the up-side towards Hiroshima Station on the south, both able to handle articulated cars. The stop carries number U12.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
West of Ujina 2-chome stands the Hiroshima Folk Museum, housed in a surviving section of the Imperial Army Provisions Bureau (Ujina Army Ryomatsu Shisho) buildings; before the line was moved onto Ujina-dori in 1935, the original Ujina Line ran past these very buildings and had stops named for them — Ryomatsu Shisho North Back-gate and Ryomatsu Shisho West Back-gate.