Keitokuku-mae

Weekday departures: 232/day · Sat & holiday departures: 240/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:04 / 23:08

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (21)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• Trunk Line: Karashimacho ⇄ Kawaramachi (Kumamoto)

Keitokukō-mae opened in 1955 as a Kumamoto City tram stop on the Trunk Line; it is stop 7, served by the A-system. From 1924 to 28 December 1943 a Furukawa-machi station (古川町駅) operated near the present site. From 1 April 1959 to 21 February 1965 Keitokukō-mae served as the eastern terminus of the Kawajiri Line (operationally through-running to Karashima-machi). On 29 November 2024 a drunk-driven car rear-ended the stop's concrete buffer.

The "Keitoku" name comes from a 16th-century Buddhist monk, Keitoku, who is said to have dug a moat in this area to support the Junshōji temple; the moat and its surroundings became known as "Keitoku-bori" and the local Keitoku Elementary School later took the same name.