History
Green Stadium-mae Station (no. 12) is an Utsunomiya Light Rail Utsunomiya-Haga LRT Line tram stop in Kiyohara-kōgyō-danchi, Utsunomiya, located in the northern part of the Utsunomiya Kiyohara Industrial Park. The provisional name during planning was "Kiyohara-kōgyō-danchi-kita". Canon, which operates three sites near the stop — the Utsunomiya Plant, the Utsunomiya Optical Equipment Office and the Optical Technology Research Office — purchased the naming rights and added the sub-name "Canon-mae". The stop's name was decided on 23 April 2021, and it opened on 26 August 2023. The stop is a 2-island-4-track configuration with platforms staggered on either side of Utsunomiya Municipal Route 1440 — the up-line (Utsunomiya-direction) platforms on the north, the down-line (Haga-Takanezawa-direction) platforms on the south — supporting train turnarounds and express-overtaking moves.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Green Stadium-mae has the line's only 2-island-4-track configuration outside Hiraishi: it supports both turnarounds and express overtaking, and special-event trains for the adjacent Honda Heat Green Stadium reverse here using platform 3. When the platform cannot accommodate the queue, ticket-holders are guided into a line along the trackside footpath.