Horizume

Weekday departures: 308/day · Sat & holiday departures: 280/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:10 / 22:15

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (37)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Tosaden Kōtsū Ino Line: Harimayabashi ⇄ Ōhashidōri

Horizume Station is the oldest stop on the Tosaden Kōtsū tram network, opening on 2 May 1904, the day the first generation of Tosa Electric Railway began operating Kōchi's streetcars between Horizume and Noridashi (today's Grand-dōri). At the time, Horizume was the eastern terminus of the Honmachi Line (本町線, the future Ino Line). When the Shioe Line (later Sanbashi Line) was extended from Umenotsuji on 6 April 1906, Horizume became a junction; the further extension east to Shimoji in 1908 made it a three-way hub. That status only lasted until 1928, when the Eguchi Line and the Harimaya-bashi–Ushioe-bashi-kita-zume section of the Sanbashi Line opened — the four-route hub then moved one stop east to Harimayabashi, and the old Horizume–Ushioe-bashi-kita-zume section of the Sanbashi Line was abandoned. Horizume settled into its present life as an Ino-line intermediate stop. The Ino-bound platform was moved 40 m towards Ino on 20 June 1977, and the stop passed to Tosaden Kōtsū on 1 October 2014 with the operator merger.

Horizume was Kōchi's central tram hub for twenty years: from the 1908 east-west extension until 1928, when the Ekimae and new Sanbashi-line tracks made Harimayabashi a four-way junction one block to the east, and the old Horizume-to-Ushioe-bashi route was abandoned.