History
The Kagoshima Electric Tramway opened a tram stop in front of Kagoshima Station on 20 December 1914 under the name Teishaba-mae ("Station Front"). Operation moved to the Kagoshima Municipal Electricity Bureau on 1 July 1928 and then to the Kagoshima City Transportation Bureau in successive reorganisations. Although the adjacent JR station has been overtaken in importance by Kagoshima-Chūō since 1971, the tram stop remains the eastern terminus of the First-Phase Line — operationally both Route 1 and Route 2 begin and end here. Most recently the stop was closed for reconstruction from 1 February 2020 through 26 March 2021, during which time Sakurajima-Sanbashi-dōri served as the temporary terminus.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.