History
Minami-Kagoshima-eki-mae Station is the Kagoshima City Tram Tanyama Line tram stop adjacent to JR Kyushu's Minami-Kagoshima Station, in Minami-Kōrimoto-chō, Kagoshima. The tram stop traces its history to a Kagoshima Electric Tramway stop called Keibajō-mae ("in front of the racetrack"), opened on an unrecorded date in the early Taishō era. On 1 July 1928 it was transferred to the Kagoshima City Electric Bureau, and on 28 December 1928 it was converted from light-rail to a tram stop and remained as Keibajō-mae. On 1 October 1944 the adjacent JR (then JNR) Minami-Kagoshima Station opened, on 1 October 1956 the stop was renamed Nankō-iriguchi ("South Port entrance"), and on 1 January 1967 it took its present name. The tram stop has two opposed side platforms with approach indicators on both, and sits on dedicated right-of-way that begins near Namidabashi and continues to Tanyama; standard wheelchairs cannot be used because the platform width is below regulation.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Many riders from the Ibusuki direction transfer here between JR Kyushu's Minami-Kagoshima Station and the tram, and there are also significant numbers of short-distance JR users on the parallel section between Kagoshima-Chūō and Tanyama. The two stations are operationally separate but functionally a transfer hub.