History
Seiwagakuen-mae tram stop is on the Tosaden Kōtsū Gomen Line in Ōtsu, Kōchi. It opened on 10 September 1985 (some sources give 14 September) as a Tosa Electric Railway petition station to ease the commute to Seiwa Girls' Junior and Senior High School, which had relocated from Hongū-machi to the adjacent site that month. The neighbouring Ichijōbashi stop already existed but was retained at local residents' request, leaving the two stops just 63 m apart — the shortest distance between adjacent stations in Japan. A platform was added on the Gomen-machi-bound side in 2004, and on 1 October 2014 it became a Tosaden Kōtsū station after the operator's three-way merger.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Seiwagakuen-mae and the neighbouring Ichijōbashi sit just 63 m apart along the Gomen Line — the shortest distance between adjacent railway stations in Japan — separated only by a narrow river crossed by the Akemigawa truss bridge, with each platform clearly visible from the other.