History
Kishaba Station is a Kagoshima City Tram Tanyama Line tram stop in Arata 2-chōme, Kagoshima, serving Route 1. The stop opened on 1 December 1912 under Kagoshima Electric Tramway and was transferred on 1 July 1928 to the Kagoshima City Electric Bureau (today the Kagoshima City Transportation Bureau). It has two side platforms with approach indicators and announcements on both; standard wheelchairs are accepted but powered chairs are not permitted because the platform width is below the regulation minimum. There is a crossover on the Taniyama side of the platform with a turning-back-position sign, allowing reversals if required. Surrounding the stop is the Kishaba student district of Kagoshima University, with the Shimo-arata and Kōrimoto campuses both nearby, alongside a concentration of restaurants and shops.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-10.
Notes
The stop's name comes from the Satsuma-domain horseback-archery training ground (kishaba) that once stood nearby, giving the surrounding student neighborhood — packed with cheap restaurants and izakaya catering to Kagoshima University students — the unusual name "Kishaba".