History
This stop opened on 26 October 1914 (Taishō 3) as Fudankōin (不断光院) Station, was renamed Sambashi-dōri (桟橋通) around 1921 (Taishō 10), then suspended (date unknown) before resuming operations on 28 December 1948 (Shōwa 23). On the same day, the Kamimachi Line's Asahi-dōri–Shichikō-mae segment was rerouted into a new Shiyakushomae–Shichikō-mae line, with this stop becoming the Kamimachi Line's starting point. It was renamed Shiyakushomae on 19 May 1956 (Shōwa 31). The Kamimachi Line was abolished on 1 October 1985 (Shōwa 60), making this stop the terminus of Route 2. It is part of the First-Phase Line, served by Routes 1 and 2 of the Kagoshima City Tram.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Before the Kamimachi Line was abolished in 1985 to ease congestion on adjoining national highways, the old Route 2 ran from here over the Kagoshima Main Line on a flyover and out to Shimizu-machi Station in northern Kagoshima City. After abolition, a single-track stub of the old line remained as a siding running from the branch point as far as the former Shigakkō-Ato stop, so that the new Route 2 (via Kagoshima-Chūō and Kōso) could terminate here without blocking the Route 1 trains heading to Kagoshima-eki-mae; the siding was removed in 1991 (Heisei 3) when the new Route 2 was extended through to Kagoshima-eki-mae as the Kagoshima-eki-mae platforms were expanded to three tracks. The Kagoshima City Hall main building, registered as an Important Cultural Property in 1998, faces the stop, and the area is the city's administrative and waterfront commercial centre.