History
Hiroden-Miyajima-guchi Station (M38) is the terminus of the Hiroden Miyajima Line in Miyajima-guchi 1-chōme, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima — the gateway to UNESCO-listed Itsukushima Shrine via the Miyajima ferries. It opened on 1 February 1931 as Densha-Miyajima Station when Hiroshima Gas & Electric Tramway extended the line from Shin-Miyajima, completing the Miyajima Line; the name distinguished it from the JGR's own Miyajima Station. The Hatsukaichi-to-here section was lifted to single track in July 1944 for wartime materials, restored to double in July 1950. Renamed Hiroden-Miyajima on 1 June 1961, then Hiroden-Miyajima-guchi on 1 November 2001 to mirror the JR station's earlier rename. On 2 July 2022 the station was relocated to the former Miyajima-guchi Momiji Honjin site beside the ferry terminal, switching to a four-platform stub layout with alphabet (A–F) bay labels.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
After the July 2022 relocation, Hiroden-Miyajima-guchi adopted alphabet (A through F) platform labels rather than the usual numbers — the same convention used at Hiroshima Port (since 2003) and the new Hiroshima Station terminus (August 2025) — to prevent confusion with Hiroden's numbered route system (1-go-sen, 2-go-sen, and so on).