Chunagon

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: Kobashi ⇄ Kadotayashiki

Chūnagon 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 in Chūnagonchō and Kobashichō 2-chōme in Naka-ku, Okayama City, with stop number H08. Like neighbouring Kobashi, the road here is too narrow for boarding islands, so the stop has no platforms — only painted safety-zone outlines on the carriageway, with passengers waiting on the pavement and crossing once a tram arrives. Because of this layout, wheelchair users cannot board or alight here and must use the adjacent stops at Saidaijichō/Halenowa-mae or Kadotayashiki instead.

After the 2001 incident at neighbouring Kobashi Stop where a car struck students waiting in the painted safety zone, Chūnagon was also identified as dangerous and improvements were demanded, but the same constraints — narrow road, no scope for platforms or mound-up zones, and rush-hour traffic ruling out single-tracking — applied here too. As a stopgap, signs and on-tram announcements warning passengers about passing traffic were introduced.