History
Kenchō-mae Station opened on 10 August 2003 (Heisei 15) with the inauguration of the Okinawa Urban Monorail (Yui Rail) between Naha Airport and Shuri stations. ICOCA-compatible OKICA went into service here on 20 October 2014 (Heisei 26), Suica became usable on 10 March 2020 (Reiwa 2), and on 28 March 2023 (Reiwa 5) the automatic ticket gates were expanded from three to four lanes. The provisional name during planning was Onaribashi. The station carries station number 7 and serves as the closest stop to both Okinawa Prefectural Government and Naha City Hall.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The boarding chime at this station is an arrangement of the Okinawan folk song "Tinsagunu Hana," played as trains pull in. The station was also the subject of the photo used for the original one-day passes when the monorail opened, although the rooftop signs of Okinawa Bank and the "Kokuba-gumi" / "Japan Airlines" lettering on Kokuba Building atop the photo were erased for the print run; the design later evolved to Yui Rail's image illustrations and then to a QR-code-bearing standard ticket layout. Heading east about 80 m from the south-side Kenchō-Kita-guchi intersection brings you onto Kokusai-dōri, central Naha's main retail axis.