Ebisu train station
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 Ebisu Station, Yamanote Line Platform
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| Architectural style | Through station |
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| City / municipality | Shibuya |
| prefecture | Tokyo |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 35 ° 38 '48 " N , 139 ° 42' 36" E |
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| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Ebisu Station ( Jap. 恵比寿駅 , Ebisu-eki ) is a railway junction in Tokyo and is located in Shibuya in the local district Ebisuminami 1-chome ( 恵比寿南1丁目 ). The name of the station is derived from a beer produced in the formerly nearby Sapporo brewery for whose transport the station was originally built. The beer, in turn, was named after the Japanese god of happiness Ebisu .
history
- February 25, 1901: The station opens as a freight yard. This is mainly used to transport the beers produced in the nearby Sapporo brewery
- October 30, 1906: Start of passenger operations
- October 12, 1909: Connection to the Yamanote Line
- May 25, 1945: The station building burns down in an air raid during World War II
- March 25, 1964: The Hibiya Line subway station opens
- November 15, 1982: cessation of freight operations
- March 16, 1996: Connection to the Saikyō Line
- December 1, 2001: Connection to the Shōnan-Shinjuku line
Type of construction and tracks
The station is built in the most common design of a station in the form of a through station. The four tracks of the JR station run in a north-south direction along two central platforms .
The two tracks of the Hibiya line of the Tokyo Metro are located underground, they run in an east-west direction.
JR East platforms
| 1 | ▉ Yamanote Line | Shibuya • Shinjuku • Ikebukuro |
| 2 | ▉ Yamanote Line | Shinagawa • Tokyo • Ueno |
| 3 | ▉ Saikyō line | Shibuya • Akabane • Kawagoe |
| ▉ Shōnan-Shinjuku line | Ōmiya • (connection to the JR East Utsunomiya Line ) Utsunomiya | |
| ▉ Shōnan-Shinjuku line | Ōmiya • (connection to the JR East Takasaki Line ) Takasaki | |
| 4th | ▉ Saikyō line | Ōsaki |
| ▉ Shōnan-Shinjuku line | Ōsaki • (connection to the JR East Tōkaidō main line ) Yokohama • Odawara | |
| ▉ Shōnan-Shinjuku line | Ōsaki • (connection to the JR East Yokosuka Line ) Shin-Kawasaki • Kurihama |
Tokyo Metro platforms
| 1 |
 Hibiya lineage
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Naka-Meguro (H-01) |
| 2 |
Hibiya lineage
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Ginza (H-08) • Akihabara (H-15) • Kita-Senju (H-21) |
Lines
The station is served by several lines of the JR East. These are the Saikyō Line, Shōnan Shinjuku Line, and Yamanote Line. In addition to the three lines of the JR East, the station is also served by the Hibiya line of the Tokyo Metro. The colors used in the table below are the color codes of the lines assigned by the companies.
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.svg){kind=logo} Saikyō Line JR East |
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JR East Shonan-Shinjuku Line |
Shibuya | ||
| Meguro |
Yamanote Line JR East |
Shibuya | ||
| Naka-Meguro (H-01) |
 Hibiya Line (H-02) Tokyo Metro |
Hiroo (H-03) | ||
Station melody
Two excerpts from the theme song from the film The Third Man are used on the tracks of the JR train station . One of the two cutouts is used on tracks 1 and 2 as well as on tracks 3 and 4. The melody on the odd tracks is played by a zither , the melody on the even tracks is played by a steel pan .
This melody was chosen because it was used by the Sapporo brewery, which was once in the neighborhood, to advertise one of the beers produced there.
Surroundings
Until 1985 there was a brewery of the Sapporo Brewery directly to the east of the station area. The site has been used since 1994 by the Ebisu Garden Place ( 比 寿 寿 ガ ー デ ン プ レ イ ス , Ebisu gādenpuraisu ) with a hotel, restaurants, museums and various shops. These include a subsidiary of Mitsukoshi , the administration of the Sapporo brewery, the Ebisu Beer Museum ( 恵 比 寿 麦 酒 記念 館 , Ebisu biiru kinenkan ) and the Tokyo Photography Museum ( 東京 都 写真 美術館 , Tōkyō-to shashin bijutsukan ).
In front of the station there is also a statue of the eponymous god of luck, Ebisu.
use
In 2014, the station was used by an average of 135,493 passengers per day, making it 22nd out of over 900 on the list of the most frequently used stations of the JR East in 2014. The Tokyo Metro's Hibiya line was used by an average of 107,471 passengers a day, making Ebisu station 29th of the most popular Tokyo Metro stations.
Footnotes and individual references
- ↑ Passengers boarding in Ebisu. Calculation from sold single, collective and monthly tickets.
- ↑ http://www.jreast.co.jp/habenger/index.html Source: JR East, rank 22
- ↑ http://www.tokyometro.jp/corporate/enterprise/zügeger_rail/transportation/züge/index.html Source: Tokyo Metro, rank 32, as of March 2014 (the statistics include passengers entering and leaving)
