History
Yui-no-mori-higashi Station (no. 15) is an Utsunomiya Light Rail Utsunomiya-Haga LRT Line tram stop in Yui-no-mori 5-chōme, Utsunomiya, built at the intersection of Tochigi Prefectural Route 69 (Utsunomiya-Mōka) and Utsunomiya Municipal Routes 5991 / 5992. The provisional name during planning was "Tekunoporisu-higashi". Honda Cars Tochigi-Chūō, a Honda automobile-dealership operator, purchased the naming rights and added the sub-name "Honda Cars Tochigi-Chūō Yui-no-mori-ten-mae"; to mark the LRT opening, the dealership displayed an N-VAN painted in the yellow-and-black livery of the HU300-series Lightline trams. The stop's name was decided on 23 April 2021, and it opened on 26 August 2023. The stop has a staggered two-platform layout, with the Haga-Takanezawa-direction platform east of the intersection and the Utsunomiya Station East-direction platform west of it.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
To mark the LRT's August 2023 opening, the Honda Cars Tochigi-Chūō Yui-no-mori dealership next to the stop painted one of its N-VAN micro-vans in the yellow-and-black livery of the HU300-series Lightline trams and put it on display — an unusually direct marketing tie-in for a stop sub-name.