Ebisu Station (Tokyo)
- 4 (JR East)
- 2 (Tokyo Metro)
- February 25, 1901 (JR East)
- March 25, 1964 (Tokyo Metro)
JR East
- Saikyo Line
- Shonan -Shinjuku Line
- Yamanote Line
Tokyo Metro
- Hibiya Line
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The Ebisu Station (Japanese恵 比 寿 駅, Ebisu -eki ) is an interchange station located 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 derives was originally built by a produced in the formerly nearby Sapporo Brewery beer for its transport from the train station. The beer was in turn named after the Japanese lucky deity Ebisu.
History
- February 25, 1901: Opening of the station as the train yard. This is used mainly to transport the beers produced in the near Sapporo Brewery
- October 30, 1906: start of passenger operations
- October 12, 1909: Following the Yamanote Line
- May 25 1945: The station building burns during an air raid in World War II low
- March 25, 1964: Opening of the metro station, Hibiya line
- November 15, 1982: Setting the freight operation
- March 16, 1996: Following the Saikyo Line
- December 1, 2001: Following the Shonan -Shinjuku Line
Design and tracks
The station was built in the most common design of a train station in the form of a through station. The four tracks of the JR train station here run in a north-south direction along two central platforms.
In the underground there are two tracks of the Hibiya Line of Tokyo Metro, this runs in an East -West direction.
Platforms JR East
Platforms Tokyo Metro
Lines
The station is served by several lines of JR East. These are the Saikyo Line, Shonan -Shinjuku Line and Yamanote Line. In addition to the three lines of JR East railway station, we are also served by the Hibiya Line of Tokyo Metro. The colors used in the table below are assigned by the company color codes of the lines.
Station melody
Two cutouts The third man on the tracks of the JR train station come from the title theme of the film used. This coming on the tracks 1 and 2 and on the tracks 3 and 4, each of the two cut-outs for use. The melody on the odd tracks is played by a zither, the melody on the straight tracks of a steel pan.
This melody was chosen because it was used by the formerly located in the neighborhood Sapporo Brewery for advertising one of the beers produced there.
Environment
Until 1985, there was just east of the station site adjacent brewery Sapporo Brewery. The site has been used since 1994 by the Ebisu Garden Place (恵比寿ガーデンプレイス, Ebisu gādenpuraisu ) with hotel, restaurants, museums and shops. These include, among other things, a branch of Mitsukoshi, the management of Sapporo Brewery and the Ebisu Beer Museum (恵 比 寿 麦 酒 记念 馆, Ebisu biiru Kinenkan ) and the Tokyo Museum of Photography (东京 都 写真 美术馆, Tōkyō-to shashin Bijutsukan ).
Outside the station also is a statue of the eponymous luck deity Ebisu.
Use
In 2007, the station from an average of 137 826 passengers was used on the day, so that the rank 19 took over 900 on the ranking of the busiest train stations of JR East in 2007. The Hibiya Line of Tokyo Metro was used by an average of 105,600 passengers a day, the Ebisu station is now on rank 29 of the busiest train stations in the Tokyo Metro.