History
Kaigan-dori opened on 1 December 1950, but the Ujina Line had already had a stop on this site for decades before that. When the original Ujina Line extension reached this district in 1915, the line ran south along the west embankment of the Ujina district and turned east along Kaigan-dori to the Ujina Pier, where the line ended at Ujina Station. In 1935 the line was relocated onto the present alignment along Ujina-dori and Kaigan-dori from the opposite direction, and the original Ujina Station was abolished; a new stop, Ujina-sanbashi-mae ('Ujina-Pier Front'), opened in front of the pier the same day. That stop was abolished in 1942, and when it was restored on 1 December 1950 the name was changed to Kaigan-dori ('Coast Road'). Safety zones were added on 31 August 1994 in the wake of the Ujina 3-chome hit-and-run, and on 31 August 2002 the stop was moved roughly 100 metres towards Ujina 5-chome in connection with the National Route 2 / Hiroshima Highway 3 'Hiroshima South Road' works. The pre-2002 location had also been the site of a temporary Keirinjo-iriguchi stop, open only on Hiroshima Velodrome race days from around 1952 until the 2002 relocation. The platforms are arranged opposite each other on a combined-track street alignment, with the down-side towards Hiroshima Port on the east and the up-side towards Minami-machi 6-chome on the west, with full-length shelter and a crosswalk to the south. The stop carries number U16.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
On Hiroshima Minato Yume-Hanabi (port fireworks) days each July, the crossover west of Hiroshima Port is used to terminate special-event tram services at this stop and reverse them back northwards; the normally unstaffed stop is then heavily staffed.