History
Gofukumachi tram stop opened on 1 August 1924 as a Kumamoto City Transportation Bureau (Kumamoto City Tram) stop in what is today Uoya-chō 2-13, Chūō-ku, Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture. The stop is numbered 5 and is served by the A trunk-line route.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The stop is named after the surrounding district 'Gofuku-machi', said to derive from the gathering of kimono merchants (gofuku-shō) here during the Edo period. It has two opposed platforms separated quite far between the Kumamoto-eki-mae and Karashima-chō directions, with no signalised crossing between them — passengers must use a zebra crossing. Gofukumachi sits in the heart of the old Furu-machi quarter; many shrines and temples remain in the vicinity, along with buildings such as the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Kumamoto Branch that evoke its former prosperity. The Kengunmachi-bound platform carries the only enamel station-name sign still in place anywhere on the Kumamoto City Tram network.