Kobashi

Weekday departures: 292/day · Sat & holiday departures: 284/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:02 / 22:21

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (23)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• Higashiyama Main Line: 西大寺町・岡山芸術創造劇場ハレノワ前 ⇄ Chunagon

Kobashi Stop opened on 9 July 1923 with the opening of the Saidaijichō-Higashiyama section of the Okayama Electric Tramway Higashiyama Main Line. The stop is located in Kobashichō 1-chōme and 2-chōme, Naka-ku, Okayama City, with stop number H07. Because the road is too narrow for proper platforms, Kobashi has no boarding island — only a painted safety-zone outline on the carriageway and timetables posted on nearby telegraph poles. Passengers wait on the pavement and cross the road to board only after a tram has arrived.

On 11 November 2001 a car struck a group of high-school students waiting inside the painted safety-zone outline, injuring multiple students; calls for improvement were made but the road was too narrow for proper platforms or mound-up boarding zones, and single-tracking was ruled out due to rush-hour needs. As a workaround, the bank Chūgoku Bank Kobashi branch installed a roofed waiting area on its premises, and trams now play an in-car "Mind the cars" announcement when stopping at Kobashi and similarly-built Chūnagon Stop.