History
Kōtsū-kyoku-mae opened on 1 August 1924 as Ōe Shako-mae Station (大江車庫前駅), was renamed Denki-kyoku-mae (電気局前駅) in February 1935 and Kōtsū-kyoku-mae on 1 June 1944. It is stop 14 on the Suizenji Line, served by both A- and B-system trams. The stop has a crossover and a depot lead-in on the Miso-Tenjin side, and is also used as a crew-change point for some runs.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The tram operator's name has been baked into the stop name for over 80 years — going from "Electric Bureau" in 1935 to "Transportation Bureau" in 1944 — and now matches the prefecture's long-standing Kumamoto City Transportation Bureau brand.