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Danbara 1-chome Station

railway station in Hiroshima, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ5214943 ↗
Source-derived summary

Danbara 1-chome is a Hiroden station (tram stop) on Hiroden Hijiyama Line, located in Danbara 1-chome, Minami-ku, Hiroshima.

Routes

Loop Line

Connections

█ Circular Route

Matoba-cho — Danbara 1-chome — Hijiyama-shita

Around station

Danbara Elementary School

Matsukawa Park

Hijiyama Shrine

Hijiyama River

Kyoubashi River

Enko River

History

Opened as "Danbara-oohata-machi" on December 27, 1944.

Renamed to "Danbara-ohata-machi" in 1995.

Renamed to "Danbara 1-chome" on November 1, 2001.

Operations suspended with the opening of the Ekimae Odori route of the Hiroden Main Line on 3 August 2025.

Editorial summary

“Danbara 1-chome Station” enters the record as railway station in Hiroshima, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Danbara, 1-chome and Station can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1944, 1995, 2001, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1944-12-27. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Danbara, 1-chome and Station.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Danbara 1-chome Station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Danbara, 1-chome and Station provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5214943. Authority coordinates are 34.390, 132.474. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1944, 1995, 2001 and 2025.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Danbara 1-chome Station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Danbara 1-chome Station primary sources, Danbara 1-chome Station archive and Danbara research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Danbara 1-chome Station”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Danbara 1-chome Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.