History
Kitayama tram stop opened on 1 November 1960 in Ino, Agawa District, Kōchi Prefecture by combining the earlier Kitayamaguchi and Shiozaki stops on the Ino Line. Both predecessors had opened on 7 November 1907 as Tosa Electric Railway stops when the Edagawa - Ino section of the Ino Line was completed: Kitayamaguchi at 10.3 km from Harimayabashi, Shiozaki at 10.4 km. Kitayamaguchi was suspended on 16 January 1943 and reinstated on 15 October 1952 before both were abolished in the 1960 consolidation. On 1 October 2014 Tosa Electric Railway merged with Kōchi-ken Kōtsū and Tosaden Dream Service to form Tosaden Kōtsū, and the stop passed to the new company.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Kitayama tram stop has two facing platforms staggered diagonally across the single east-west track: the Harimayabashi-bound platform is properly built, but the Ino-bound side has only a white-painted safety island on the road that runs parallel just to the south. The stop is wedged against a hill to the north, and from here as far as Ino Shōgyō-mae the Ino Line tracks run alongside the JR Dosan Line and National Route 33.