History
Kankōdōri opened on 30 April 1921 as Dōza-machi on the same day the Nagasaki Electric Tramway third-phase line opened between Nishi-Hamano-machi and Shianbashi. The Dōza name comes from a former Edo-period copper-rod mint here. In April 1930 it was renamed Yanagi-dōri after the local shopping street, abolished in January 1944 with the wartime express timetable, and reopened on 1 July 1953 — by then the street had been re-renamed Kankō-dōri, so the stop opened under that name too. The platforms were rebuilt on 29 March 2000 with the canopy replaced by a shelter design. It is stop number 33 on the Main Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.