History
Takenohashi Station is a Kagoshima City Tram stop in Kōrai-machi, Kagoshima, serving Route 1 of the Kagoshima City Tram. It is the nominal starting point of both the First-Phase Line and the Tanyama Line, although all trains run through. The stop was opened on 1 December 1912 by Kagoshima Electric Tramway as part of the initial route, and on 3 July 1914 the new Takenohashi–Yamanokuchi-baba section made the stop an intermediate station; on 1 July 1928 it was transferred to the Kagoshima City Electric Bureau (today the Kagoshima City Transportation Bureau). It has two side platforms with approach indicators on both sides. A short branch ran from the stop into the former tram-bureau depot but was rarely used and has since been removed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The stop is named for the Edo-period Takenohashi stone bridge, one of the five stone bridges of the Kōtsuki River, that once stood close by; the bridge was washed away in the catastrophic 6 August 1993 "8.6 floods" and has not been reconstructed.