History
Morimachi opened in March 1932 as Take-no-Kubo-Dōri on the Nagasaki Electric Tramway Main Line. The stop was suspended in January 1944 when wartime express running stopped serving it. It reopened in a new location on 1 February 1954 and on 20 September 1966 was renamed Morimachi. The current rebuild dates from 13 December 2000. Confusingly, an earlier and different Morimachi stop had existed nearby from circa 1919 (initially Honshamae) until 1944; that stop was named for the Nagasaki Electric Tramway head office and Morimachi depot that stood next to it, both of which are now gone. Today's stop is number 23 on the Main Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The original Morimachi depot, opened in 1916 on land transferred from the JGR Urakami station, burned to the ground in May 1921 and was later closed in 1937 once the Hotarujaya depot opened; nothing of it survives.