History
Nichūdōri Station is a Kagoshima City Tram Tanyama Line tram stop in Kōrai-machi, Kagoshima, served by Route 1. The stop was opened on 9 June 1929 by the Kagoshima City Electric Bureau as Nichūdōri Station; on 1 September 1949 it was renamed Kōtsūbu-mae, and on 1 October 1952 it became Kōtsū-kyoku-mae when the city's Transportation Section was reorganised as the Transportation Bureau. Because the bureau headquarters and adjacent Kagoshima Municipal Hospital were relocated to Kami-arata-chō on 1 May 2015, the stop was renamed Nichūdōri Station once again that day; on the same day the new closest stop to the bureau, Kanda, was renamed Kanda (Kōtsū-kyoku-mae). From 1 January 2023, naming-rights partner Nankoku Shokusan added the sub-name "Nichūdōri (Kirameki Terrace-mae)". The stop has two side platforms with approach indicators and announcements, and is unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The "Nichū" ("Second Middle") in the name refers to the institution today known as Kagoshima Prefectural Kōnan High School. The stop carried the name "Kōtsū-kyoku-mae" ("Transportation Bureau front") for 63 years until the bureau moved to Kami-arata-chō in 2015; passengers boarding a "Kōtsū-kyoku-mae bound" tram before then alighted here as a terminal, even when heading further south, and had to pay separately to board the next service in either direction.