History
Akasako tram stop opened on 8 May 1960 as the new northern terminus of the Nagasaki Electric Tramway when the line was extended north from Sumiyoshi; the area at the time was unpaved, with a stream running alongside, both of which were buried as the road was built up for the tracks. Number 11 in the network, the stop is the start/end point of all three of the operator's service routes (1, 2 and 3) and is the company's northernmost stop. A proposal in 1973 to extend the line further north to the Nameishi district was floated but never realised because of the cost of widening the road, and the city has now in effect abandoned the northern-extension plan. A platform extension to 53 m — the longest in the Nagasaki tramway network — was completed on 28 March 2015, allowing three coupled cars to stand at the stop. The substation at Akasako, just steps from the platform, controls the switch and signal here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Akasako is the westernmost tram stop in all of Japan — its companion record-holders are Nishi-Yonchōme in the north (Sapporo), Susukino in the east (Sapporo), and Taniyama in the south (Kagoshima).