History
Ōura-Tenshudō opened on 27 December 1916 as Matsugae-bashi, was renamed Benten-bashi in April 1930, and after nearly 50 years under that name was renamed Ōura-Tenshudō-shita on 1 May 1980 to match the adjacent bus stop. The river-side platform was rebuilt on 30 March 1999, a new road-side platform was added on 28 March 2000 making it the first joint tram-and-bus platform in Japan, an arrival-announcement system was added on 26 June 2001, an approach-display unit on 29 May 2008, and the tracks through the stop were turfed in on 26 November 2009. On 1 August 2018 the "-shita" suffix was dropped to make clear the stop serves Ōura Cathedral. It is stop number 50 on the Ōura Branch Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
When a road-side platform was added in 2000, it doubled as a Nagasaki Bus stop — the first place in Japan where a tram and a bus could be boarded from the same physical platform.