Shimo-Gion

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Shimo-Gion Station (JR-B06) is a JR West Kabe Line station in Gion, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima. It opened in May 1913 as an intermediate stop on the Dainippon Kidō Hiroshima Branch (the future Kabe Line). Successive operator changes — Kabe Kidō (1919), Hiroshima Denki (1926), Hirohama Tetsudō (1931), and nationalisation as JNR (1936) — were followed by JR West in the 1987 privatisation. The station moved about 100 m north around 1943. From fiscal 2015 it became the busiest station on the Kabe Line, and a major rebuild — adding new opposed side platforms, a new west exit building and a free pedestrian concourse — was completed on 27 January 2024 with new facilities opening the next day.

Although officially written 下祇園 in modern publications, the kanji on the station building still uses the older glyph 祗 — Shimo-Gion is one of the few stations where the building name and the timetable disagree.