History
Medical Center opened on 27 December 1916 as Suishi-bashi ("Sortie Bridge"), named for a bridge that took its name from Russo-Japanese-War-era army farewell ceremonies. The stop was abolished on the wartime express timetable in January 1944 and reopened in February 1949. When the Suishi Bridge itself was removed on 5 October 1961, the tramway tracks were relocated and the stop moved to its new line under the new name Shimin-Byōin-mae ("City Hospital Front"). On 17 June 1990 the platforms were shifted 0.1 km toward Tsuki-machi, and on 1 August 2018 the stop was renamed Medical Center after the now-renamed Nagasaki Minato Medical Centre. It is stop number 47 on the Ōura Branch Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
A monument near the hospital recalls that Thomas Glover ran Japan's first experimental railway line on this site — "Our Country's Birthplace of Railways" — well before the official 1872 opening of the Shimbashi–Yokohama line.