History
Kamimachi-itchōme Station opened on 9 October 1906 as Honchō-suji-itchōme (本町筋一丁目停留場), when Tosa Electric Railway extended the Honmachi Line west from Noridashi to Kagamigawabashi. The kanji was changed to 本丁筋一丁目 on 1 August 1936, the stop was suspended on 29 July 1942, and it reopened on 1 July 1952. It took its present name Kamimachi-itchōme on 10 August 1966 in step with a city-wide address reform. The stop was at one point earmarked for closure, but kept open because the location is the birthplace of Sakamoto Ryōma and is near Kōchi Prefectural School for the Blind. It carries the secondary name "Sakamoto Ryōma Birthplace Front." 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
Sakamoto Ryōma was born on Kamimachi — a branch of the Saitani-ya merchant family that grew from one of the large stores once lining the highway carried by the Ino Line tracks. The closure proposal for this stop was withdrawn precisely because the surrounding district is Ryōma's birthplace, and the stop now carries the secondary name "Sakamoto Ryōma Birthplace Front."