History
Wakida Station is a Kagoshima City Tram Tanyama Line tram stop in Usuki 3-chōme, Kagoshima, serving Route 1. The stop opened on 1 December 1912 under Kagoshima Electric Tramway, its location was shifted on 10 November 1917, and on 1 July 1928 it was transferred to the Kagoshima City Electric Bureau (today the Kagoshima City Transportation Bureau). The stop has two side platforms with approach indicators and announcements on both, and it accepts standard wheelchairs but not powered chairs (platform width is below regulation). Until 1969 — two years after the 1967 merger of Kagoshima City and the former Tanyama City — Wakida was the fare-boundary stop between the in-city zone (¥20) and the out-of-city zone (¥5); the merger replaced both with a flat ¥25 fare. The municipal-bus / tram transfer discount operates here, and city buses depart from a stop directly alongside the tram platform.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
When Kagoshima City annexed the former Tanyama City in 1967, the Tanyama Line continued to be divided at Wakida between an in-city fare (¥20) and an out-of-city fare (¥5); the two were merged into a flat ¥25 fare in 1969, two years after the city merger took effect.