History
This stop was installed on 1 June 1952 (Shōwa 27) by the Kagoshima City Transportation Department (today the Kagoshima City Transportation Bureau) under the name Senbai-kōsha-mae (専売公社前). On 15 April 1985 (Shōwa 60), following the corporatisation of the former Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation on 1 April that year, it was renamed Tabako-Sangyō-mae (たばこ産業前) — the name came from the JT Kagoshima tobacco factory once located nearby. The factory closed in March 2005 (Heisei 17), but the name remained until 1 May 2015 (Heisei 27), when Kagoshima City Hospital moved into the factory site and the stop was renamed Shiritsubyōin-mae (2nd-generation). The earlier Shiritsubyōin-mae stop, which had borne that name before the hospital's relocation, was concurrently renamed Kōtō-Chūgakkō-mae. The stop is on the Tōsō Line and is served only by Route 2 of the Kagoshima City Tram.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-10.
Notes
The stop has two opposed side platforms but neither is wide enough to meet regulation, so wheelchair use is only partially allowed — electric wheelchairs are not. It is unstaffed with no ticket sales on site. The current name reflects three layers of local industrial history: the original Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation, its 1985 corporatisation into Japan Tobacco Inc., and the 2015 conversion of the closed tobacco factory site into Kagoshima City Hospital. Kagoshima University and Kōnan High School are also within walking distance, alongside a Taiyō supermarket.