History
Kanda (Kōtsū-kyoku-mae) Station is a Kagoshima City Tram Tōsō Line tram stop in Kami-arata-chō, Kagoshima, serving Route 2. The stop opened on 1 June 1952 under the Kagoshima City Transportation Section as Tōsō Station, and on 29 March 1957, with the opening of a new Tōsō Station further south, it was renamed Kanda. When the city's Transportation Bureau relocated from Kōrai-machi to Kami-arata-chō on 1 May 2015, the stop was renamed Kanda (Kōtsū-kyoku-mae) — reflecting its new status as the bureau's nearest tram stop — while the previous bureau-adjacent stop, Kōtsū-kyoku-mae, was renamed Nichūdōri. The stop is at-grade with two platforms; powered wheelchairs cannot be used because the platform width is below the regulation minimum, and tickets are not sold on site.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Because Kanda's name needed to be vacated when the bureau-front stop further up the line was renamed in 2015, the city executed simultaneous renames of two stops on the same day — the old "Kōtsū-kyoku-mae" (Nichū-dōri) and Kanda — and added the sub-name "(Kōtsū-kyoku-mae)" to Kanda to advertise the bureau's new location.