History
The site has hosted three different stops. The first, Kōyasan-dōri, opened on 20 December 1914 on the Kagoshima Electric Tramway, passed to the municipal Electricity Bureau in 1928 and the Transportation Section in 1933, and was abolished at an unknown date. On 10 May 1956 Kagoshima Transportation Bureau opened Kenchō-mae ("Prefectural Office Front") here. When the prefectural office moved away, it was renamed Kenchō-Ato ("Former Prefectural Office") on 6 November 1996. The opening of the Io World Kagoshima Aquarium prompted a third rename, Suizokukan-guchi ("Aquarium Entrance"), on 3 September 1997, the name it still carries today.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The original 1914 name "Kōyasan-dōri" referred to a now-vanished link with Kōyasan in Wakayama — the Shingon-sect Saijōjōin temple in nearby Nagata-chō led on a pilgrimage route to the Kōyasan mountain monastic complex.