History
Gomen-nishimachi tram stop is on the Tosaden Kōtsū Gomen Line in Hiyoshi-chō 1-chōme, Nankoku, Kōchi. It opened on 27 January 1911 as Gomen-Nishimachi-dōri Station, on the same day Tosa Electric Railway extended the Gomen Line from Ōtsu Station (closed; see Ryōseki-dōri) to Gomen-Nakamachi-dōri. The stop was suspended on 29 July 1942 during wartime austerity and revived on 9 August 1968, when it was moved 60 m westward toward the line's origin and renamed Gomen-nishimachi. On 1 October 2014 it became a Tosaden Kōtsū station after the merger of Tosa Electric Railway, Kōchi-Ken Kōtsū and Tosaden Dream Service.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Despite being only 500 m from Gomen Station — the JR-Shikoku Dosan Line terminus and the line's namesake — Gomen-nishimachi is not a designated transfer station; on the Gomen Line side, the track was a private right-of-way until a 1933 road-widening forced a 600 m stretch east of here onto the public street.