History
Suwa-jinja opened on 9 July 1920 as Uma-machi, then the eastern terminus of the Nagasaki Electric Tramway third-phase line from Sakura-machi. A car depot opened next to it on 24 March 1922. When the line was extended to Hotarujaya on 20 December 1934, the Uma-machi stop was abolished and a new platform — Suwa-jinja-shita — was built on the new alignment; the Uma-machi depot was closed on 25 October 1934. The stop was renamed Suwa-jinja-mae in September 1936, relocated nearer Hotarujaya on 21 February 1986, and renamed Suwa-jinja on 1 August 2018 (dropping the "-mae"). On 17 December 2024 the platforms were moved 45 metres toward Hotarujaya, with platform access switched from an underpass to a street-level crossing to improve accessibility. It is stop number 39 on the Hotarujaya Branch Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
For decades the platforms could only be reached via an underpass — a relic of efforts to keep the busy Uma-machi intersection clear — until the 17 December 2024 relocation finally brought a street-level crossing in line with barrier-free standards.