History
Ōhashi opened on 25 December 1933 (Shōwa 8) when the Nagasaki Electric Tramway Main Line was extended from the now-defunct Shimo-no-Kawa stop, and it served as the northern terminus until 1950. The Ōhashi depot opened the following year on 25 October 1934 but burned down on 10 October 1944 (Shōwa 19) and was further devastated by the 9 August 1945 atomic bombing. The Urakami-eki-mae–Ōhashi segment was restored on 16 May 1947 (Shōwa 22), and on 16 September 1950 the line was extended onward to Sumiyoshi. The stop's reading was officially changed from "Ōbashi" to "Ōhashi" on 17 June 1990 (Heisei 2) following input from local historians, and the stop was rebuilt on 22 February 2000 with the canopy switched to a shelter-style roof. The lower-direction platform toward Nagasaki-eki-mae was extended on 3 July 2000, and on 1 June 2005 a Nagasaki Bus stop was added with a matching shelter. The stop is number 18 on the Main Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The original Ōhashi depot's site is now used by Nagasaki Bus as their Ōhashi sales office, a lineage traceable back to 1953 (Shōwa 28) when Nagasaki Electric Tramway entered the bus business and repurposed the depot for its own bus operations, then transferred the routes to Nagasaki Bus in 1971 (Shōwa 46). Nagasaki Big-N Stadium is nearby, and on Nippon Professional Baseball game days the stop sees heavy crowds. The line runs parallel to the elevated Nagasaki Main Line between Ōhashi and the next stop, Heiwa-kōen.