History
Wakabamachi tram stop opened in April 1952 on the Nagasaki Electric Tramway Main Line, two years after the Ōhashi–Sumiyoshi section opened. The exact opening date is not recorded in the source, but contemporary company reports placed it between 11 and 21 April 1952. The name was chosen in an in-house contest and was inspired by a wish for peace; the surrounding Wakaba-machi neighbourhood is named after the stop, having taken that name by local petition only in 1964. The reading of the name was changed from "Wakaba-chō" to "Wakaba-machi" on 22 December 1994. The stop was moved approximately 140 m south on 7 May 1998 when a new stop, Chitosemachi, was added to its north as part of widening works at the Sumiyoshi intersection on National Route 206. The stop has two facing platforms on either side of the two tracks; the Akasako-bound platform is half the length of the Nagasaki-ekimae-bound side because of the adjacent bus stop, and only one car can stand on it at a time.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The neighbourhood of Wakaba-machi was named after the tram stop rather than the other way around: residents petitioned for the place name in 1964, more than a decade after the stop had opened.