History
Shin-Nakagawa-machi opened on 20 December 1934 as Nakagawa-machi on the same day the Uma-machi – Hotarujaya extension of the Nagasaki Electric Tramway opened. In December 1947 the stop was renamed Shin-Nakagawa-machi and relocated 0.2 km toward Shin-Daiku-machi. An intermediate stop, Sakurababa-machi, once stood between the two but was abolished in January 1944 with the wartime express timetable. The platforms were moved toward Hotarujaya again on 18 March 1988, and on 22 March 2010 a street-level crossing and ramps were added to supplement the long-standing footbridge. It is stop number 41 on the Hotarujaya Branch Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
A pedestrian footbridge installed in the 1960s for schoolchildren remained the only platform access for nearly half a century until a street-level crossing was finally added on 22 March 2010 to improve general usability.