History
Kumamoto-jō / Shiyakusho-mae opened on 1 August 1924 as Shiyakusho-mae Station (市役所前停留場) at what is now the Shiyakusho-mae intersection. After two relocations — the second on 16 December 1925 — it moved to its current position in April 1982 and was renamed Kumamoto-jō / Shiyakusho-mae on 1 March 2011. It is stop 10, served by both A- and B-system trams. From late 2024 the immediate area saw a string of operational incidents: a derailment just south of the stop on 31 December 2024 closed Karashima-machi – Suidō-chō for three days; rail-gauge correction work followed on 15–16 January 2025; a collision in the stop on 25 March 2025 injured 15 people and shut the same segment overnight; and on 1 June 2025 rails were found to have come loose, closing the segment from early afternoon.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The stop sits directly opposite Kumamoto City Hall, and from the platform Kumamoto Castle is visible to the north — the city renamed the stop "Kumamoto-jō / Shiyakusho-mae" in 2011 to acknowledge both landmarks.