Ebisu Station (Tokyo)

Ebisu is served by the following lines:

• East Japan Railway Company (JR East)
  • Yamanote Line
  • Saikyō Line
  • Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
• Tokyo Metro
  • Hibiya Line

EBSJA09JS18JY21 Ebisu Station 恵比寿駅
JR station entrance in May 2016
General information
Location	1 Ebisu Minami, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Japan
System	JR East station
Operated by	JR East
Lines	Saikyō Line Shōnan–Shinjuku Line Yamanote Line
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Other information
Station code	JY21 JA09 JS18
History
Opened	30 October 1906; 119 years ago (1906-10-30)
Passengers
FY2019	145,805 daily
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station Meguro JY22 Next counter-clockwise Yamanote Line Shibuya SBYJY20 Next clockwise Ōsaki OSKJS17 towards Zushi Shōnan–Shinjuku Line Rapid Local Shibuya SBYJS19 towards Utsunomiya Ōsaki OSKJA08 Terminus Saikyō Line Commuter Rapid Rapid Local Shibuya SBYJA10 towards Ōmiya Ōsaki OSKJA08 towards Ebina Sōtetsu–JR Link Line Shibuya SBYJA10 towards Shinjuku
Location

The JR East station consists of two island platforms serving four tracks.

1	Yamanote Line	for Shibuya, Shinjuku, and Ikebukuro
2	Yamanote Line	for Shinagawa, Tokyo, and Ueno
3	Saikyo Line	for Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, and Ōmiya
	Shōnan-Shinjuku Line	for Ōmiya, Utsunomiya, and Takasaki
4	Saikyō Line	for Ōsaki Rinkai Line for Shin-Kiba Sotetsu Line for Hazawa yokohama-kokudai and Ebina
	Shōnan-Shinjuku Line	for Yokohama, Ōfuna, Odawara, and Zushi

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  Platforms 1 and 2
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  Platforms 3 and 4

The melody known as "The Third Man Theme" (or as the "Ebisu Theme" in Japan) is played at the platforms just prior to train departures.^[1] This song and variations of it are used in Ebisu beer TV commercials and was made famous by the 1949 Orson Welles film noir, The Third Man, written by Graham Greene and featuring a very dark subject matter, the sale of fake penicillin in post-World War Vienna. The song, played on the zither by the previously unknown Austrian musician, Anton Karas, was a huge international hit in 1949 and 1950.

Ebisu Station 恵比寿駅
Hibiya Line platforms in 2019
General information
Location	1-5-5 Ebisu Minami, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Japan
System	Tokyo Metro station
Operated by	Tokyo Metro
Line	Hibiya Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Other information
Station code	H-02
History
Opened	25 March 1964; 62 years ago (1964-03-25)
Passengers
FY2019	117,796 daily
Services
Preceding station Tokyo Metro Following station Terminus TH Liner Hiroo One-way operation Naka-meguro Terminus Hibiya Line Hiroo towards Kita-Senju
Location

The subway station has two side platforms serving two tracks.

1	Hibiya Line	for Naka-meguro
2	Hibiya Line	for Roppongi, Ginza, Ueno, and Kita-senju Tobu Skytree Line for Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen Tobu Nikko Line for Minami-Kurihashi

The station first opened in 1901 as a freight terminal for the neighboring Yebisu Beer factory. Passenger trains began to stop at the station on 30 September 1906.^[2] The Tokyo Tamagawa tram line was extended to the station in 1927. In May 1945, the station building burned to the ground amid the bombing of Tokyo. The subway station opened on 25 March 1964^[3] and the tram service was discontinued in 1967 by the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (TRTA).

The Sapporo Brewery at Ebisu and its accompanying rail freight terminal were closed in 1982. The space was used for a "car train" service for several years before being redeveloped as the Ebisu Garden Place high-rise complex.

The Saikyo Line was extended to Ebisu in 1996. Through service to the Shonan-Shinjuku Line began in 2001, and to the Rinkai Line in 2002. Between 1996 and 2002, Ebisu served as the southern passenger terminus of the Saikyo Line, with Osaki Station being used as a turnaround point but not having passenger platforms connected to the line.

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  Old TRTA logo above station entrance, March 2004

The station facilities of the Hibiya Line were inherited by Tokyo Metro after the privatization of the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (TRTA) in 2004.^[4]

Chest-height platform edge doors were introduced on the two Yamanote Line platforms from 26 June 2010, the first time that such doors were installed on a JR line other than the Shinkansen.^[5][6]

Station numbering was introduced to the JR East platforms in 2016 with Ebisu being assigned station numbers JA09 for the Saikyo Line, JS18 for the Shonan-Shinjuku line, JY21 for the Yamanote Line. At the same time, JR East assigned the station a 3-letter code; Ebisu was assigned the code "EBS".^[7][8]

Morning TH Liner services terminating at this station commenced on 6 June 2020.^[9]

In fiscal 2019, the JR East station was used by 145,805 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the 20th-busiest station operated by JR East.^[10] In fiscal 2019, the Tokyo Metro station was used by an average of 117,796 passengers per day (exiting and entering passengers), making it the 30th-busiest station operated by Tokyo Metro.^[11]

The daily passenger figures for each operator in previous years are as shown below.

• Note that JR East figures are for boarding passengers only.