History
Miebashi opened on 10 August 2003 in Makishi 1-chōme, Naha, alongside the rest of the Okinawa Urban Monorail (Yui Rail) when service began between Naha Airport and Shuri; its station number is 8. It sits beside the Kumoji River, carries one island platform and two tracks on an elevated viaduct, and is equipped with escalators and elevators. OKICA contactless ticketing was added on 20 October 2014, with Suica and the other nationally interoperable cards following on 10 March 2020. Every Sunday, when Kokusai-dōri is closed to most cars under the city's transit-mall rules, certain route buses are diverted to a temporary stop beside the river in front of the station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The arrival chime is an arrangement of the Okinawan children's song 'Chinnuku-Juushii', and the Okinawan-dialect station announcement renders the name as 'Miibashi' rather than the standard Miebashi.