History
Namidabashi Station is a Kagoshima City Tram Tanyama Line tram stop in Kōrimoto 3-chōme, Kagoshima, serving Route 1. South of the stop the line becomes dedicated right-of-way running alongside JR Kyushu's Ibusuki Makurazaki Line. The stop opened on 3 November 1917 under Kagoshima Electric Tramway as Kōrimoto Station, was transferred on 1 July 1928 to the Kagoshima City Electric Bureau (the official date of municipality transfer is sometimes given as 1 July 1927 in older sources), and on 28 December 1928 the route was converted from light-rail to tramway and the stop became a true tram stop. It was renamed Shinkawa Station on 1 October 1959, and Namidabashi Station on 1 January 1967. A 1990 decision to rebuild the Namidabashi bridge added the Kōrimoto–Namidabashi section to the centre-pole-conversion plan; the section was finally centre-poled in 1992.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-10.
Notes
Until centre-pole conversion in 1992, the Kōrimoto–Namidabashi section was dedicated right-of-way, and the Kamoike–Namidabashi sub-section had been elevated until the Shōwa 20s — vestiges of which can still be seen as an unnatural step in the roadway running parallel to today's tracks.