History
Kuwamizu-kōsaten opened on 6 May 1945 as Kuwamizu-machi on what is now the Kumamoto City Tram Kenkun Line. The stop was renamed several times — to Kuwamizu-bashi, then Shimin-byōin-mae (Kuwamizu-bashi), and on 15 September 1961 to Kuwamizu-bashi (Shimin-byōin-mae). On 1 March 2011 it became Kuwamizu-Shiminbyōin-mae, and when the Kumamoto Municipal Hospital relocated on 1 October 2019 it took its current name, after the intersection of Kumamoto Prefectural Route 28 and National Route 57 (the Higashi Bypass) that the platforms straddle. It is stop number 22 on the Kenkun Line and the closest tram stop to Lake Egozu.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Morning Karashima-machi-bound trams arrived full from the Kenkun-machi terminus and could not accept boardings further down the line; a trial of departures terminating here ran from November 2021 and was formalised in the 11 April 2022 timetable revision.