History
Higashi-Kōgyōmae tram stop is a Tosaden Kōtsū Gomen Line station in Shinohara, Nankoku, Kōchi. The current stop opened on 10 September 1963 as a petition station built to ease the commute for students of Kōchi Prefectural Higashi-Kōgyō High School, whose closest existing stop had been Sumiyoshi-dōri. The site had previously hosted Inayoshi-dōri Station, opened on 27 January 1911 when Tosa Electric Railway extended its Gomen Line from Ōtsu to Gomen-Nakamachi-dōri — that earlier stop closed on 29 July 1942, and some sources treat the 1963 opening as Inayoshi-dōri's revival rather than a new station. On 1 October 2014, Tosaden Kōtsū was formed by the merger of Tosa Electric Railway, Kōchi-Ken Kōtsū and Tosaden Dream Service, and the station became part of the new operator's network.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Higashi-Kōgyōmae was reborn in 1963 specifically as a petition stop to shorten the walk from Kōchi Prefectural Higashi-Kōgyō High School, 200 m to the south, after the site's earlier Inayoshi-dōri stop had been closed for 21 years; depending on source it is treated as a new station or as a revival of the 1911-vintage stop.