History
Gurando-dōri Station is one of the original stops on the Tosaden Kōtsū network, opening on 2 May 1904 as Noridashi (乗出停留場) — the western terminus of Tosa Electric Railway's first day of streetcar service on the Honmachi Line. Two years later, on 9 October 1906, the line was extended west from here to Kagamigawabashi, and the stop became intermediate. It was renamed Gurando-dōri sometime before 1952 (exact date unrecorded). 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
The old name Noridashi ("setting out") referred to a Tosa-domain New Year's ceremony, the Onorizome (御駆初) mounted-troop inspection, which began here. The replacement name Gurando-dōri points the other way — to the Kōchi Municipal Sports Ground, the modern "grand" that lies south of the stop across the Kagami River.