History
Shinchi-Chūkagai opened on 16 November 1915 as Tsuki-machi on the same day the Nagasaki Electric Tramway first phase began. The original platform sat south of the present spot, where the line ran 3.7 km from Tsuki-machi to Byōin-shita. The stop was abolished on 25 December 1920 when the Tsuki-machi – Furumachi extension shifted the route, and reopened on 5 October 1961 about 40 years later when the Ōura Branch Line was re-routed to diverge here rather than at the now-defunct Sembachō stop. Renamed Shinchi-Chūkagai on 1 August 2018 to direct visitors to the adjacent Nagasaki Chinatown, it is stop number 31 and one of the network's busiest transfer points.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Long Nagasaki Electric Tramway's busiest transfer point, the Shinchi-Chūkagai platforms during the school-trip season routinely overflow onto the carriageway, prompting a 2020 decision to allow alternative transfers at Shiyakusho to help spread the load.