History
Ujina 5-chome opened on 27 December 1935 as Yonchome ('4-chome') when the Ujina Line was relocated onto its present alignment. It was abolished at some point from 1940 onward during the wartime / post-war disruption, and reopened on 1 December 1950. It was renamed Ujina-yonchome ('Ujina 4-chome') on 30 March 1960, and to its present name Ujina 5-chome on 1 September 1968 after Ujina-cho's place-names were redrawn. Until that 1968 reform, the stop now called Ujina 4-chome had held the name Ujina 7-chome — this stop and its neighbour each shifted to a new number on the same day. 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 Minami-machi 6-chome on the south; the down-side platform is short and articulated cars must close the rearmost doors during alighting. The stop carries number U15.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Until 1952 the area south-west of Ujina 5-chome housed the headquarters of the national railway's Hiroshima Rail Bureau (later Railway Management Bureau); a temporary stop called Tetsudokyoku-mae ('Rail Bureau Front') was authorised in August 1936 just south of this stop to serve the office and survived until the bureau moved behind Hiroshima Station around 1952.