History
The stop opened on 2 May 1904 as Honmachi-Kami-Itchōme Stop with the inauguration of the Tosa Electric Railway Honmachi Line. It was later renamed Kenchō-mae (date unrecorded). On 1 October 2014, after Tosa Electric Railway merged with Kōchi Kenkō and Tosaden Dream Service to form Tosaden Kōtsū, the stop passed to the new operator.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Because Kōchi City Hall is also close by, the stop is sometimes announced as 'Kenchō / Shiyakusho-mae' (Prefectural Office / City Hall). The two platforms sit on the median strip and are offset east-west rather than facing each other, on the road interchange where Kōchi Castle's keep is visible to the south; before the next stop was renamed Kōchijō-mae in 1978, this was where many castle visitors alighted.