History
Keitokukō-mae opened in 1955 as a Kumamoto City tram stop on the Trunk Line; it is stop 7, served by the A-system. From 1924 to 28 December 1943 a Furukawa-machi station (古川町駅) operated near the present site. From 1 April 1959 to 21 February 1965 Keitokukō-mae served as the eastern terminus of the Kawajiri Line (operationally through-running to Karashima-machi). On 29 November 2024 a drunk-driven car rear-ended the stop's concrete buffer.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The "Keitoku" name comes from a 16th-century Buddhist monk, Keitoku, who is said to have dug a moat in this area to support the Junshōji temple; the moat and its surroundings became known as "Keitoku-bori" and the local Keitoku Elementary School later took the same name.