History
Harimayabashi Station is the crossroads of the Tosaden Kōtsū tram network — the only place in Japan where four tram lines meet at a single grade-level intersection. The east–west platforms opened on 31 October 1908 when Tosa Electric Railway (土佐電気鉄道, first generation) extended the future Gomen and Ino lines from Horizume east to Shimoji (today's Hōeichō); the north–south platforms followed in 1928 with the opening of the Eguchi Line (today's Ekimae Line) on 16 February and the Sanbashi Line's Harimaya-bashi–Ushioe-bashi-kita-zume section on 10 August. From then on Harimayabashi replaced Horizume as the network's hub. Right-turn track inside the intersection was removed by 8 September 1951, the southbound Sanbashi-line platform was moved south on 27 November 1963, and a new Ekimae-to-Ino right-turn track in 2005 shifted the westbound Ino-line platform to the west side of the crossing. The stop passed to Tosaden Kōtsū on 1 October 2014 with the operator merger.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Until 2005 the Ekimae-to-Ino right-turn at Harimaya-bashi was a tram-track gap — passengers had to change cars to ride straight through. The 2005 reconstruction laid new right-turn rails in the southwest quadrant of the intersection and relocated the westbound Ino-line platform across the crossing.