Ebina Station (海老名駅, Ebina-eki) is an interchange passenger railway station located in the city of Ebina, Kanagawa, Japan. It is jointly operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East), and the private railway operators Odakyu Electric Railway, and Sagami Railway (Sōtetsu).

Lines

Ebina Station is served by the following lines.

The station is 43.5 km (27.0 mi) from the Odakyu terminus at Shinjuku Station, 15.9 km (9.9 mi) from the Sagami Line terminus at Chigasaki Station, and 24.6 km (15.3 mi) from the Sotetsu terminus at Yokohama Station.

Station layout

Sōtetsu

The Sōtetsu Main Line station has a bay platform, serving two tracks.

1, 2  Sōtetsu Main Line for Yamato, Futamata-gawa, Nishiya, and Yokohama
Sōtetsu Shin-Yokohama Line for Hazawa yokohama-kokudai and Shin-Yokohama
 JSJA Sōtetsu-JR Link Line for Shinjuku and Kawagoe
 SH Tōkyū Shin-Yokohama Line for Hiyoshi
 TY Tōkyū Tōyoko Line for Shibuya
 F Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line for Wakōshi
 TJ Tōbu Tōjō Line for Kawagoeshi, Shinrin-kōen, and Ogawamachi
 MG Tōkyū Meguro Line for Meguro
 I Toei Mita Line for Nishi-takashimadaira
 N Tokyo Metro Namboku Line for Akabane-iwabuchi
 SR Saitama Rapid Railway Line for Urawa-misono

JR East

The JR Sagami Line station has a single island platform, serving two tracks. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

1 ■ Sagami Line for Atsugi, Samukawa, and Chigasaki
2 ■ Sagami Line for Kamimizo and Hashimoto

Odakyu

The Odakyu Odawara Line station has two island platforms serving four tracks.

1, 2  Odakyū Odawara Line for Hon-Atsugi, Hadano, and Odawara
OH Hakone Tozan Line for Hakone-Yumoto
3, 4  Odakyū Odawara Line for Sagami-Ōno, Shin-Yurigaoka, Yoyogi-Uehara, and Shinjuku
C Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line for Ōtemachi, Kita-senju, and Ayase
 JL Jōban Line (Local) for Matsudo, Abiko, and Toride

History

Ebina Station was opened on 25 November 1941 as the terminal station of the Jinchū Railroad (神中鉄道), now Sagami Railway). The Odakyu Line Ebina-Kokubun Station (海老名国分駅), which had been in operation since 1927, was shifted 400 meters on 1 April 1943, for joint operation of Ebina Station. From December 1971, Ebina became one of the chief rail yards of the Odakyu line. On 21 December 1973, a new station was opened, located approximately 400 m (1,300 ft) from the old station in the direction of Odawara. From 21 March 1987, the Sagami Line began operations to Ebina, less than a month before the dissolution and privatization of the Japanese National Railways and formation of the East Japan Railway Company.[citation needed]

Station numbering was introduced to the Odakyu Line in January 2014 with Ebina being assigned station number OH32.[1][2]

The Odakyu Ebina Station has a unique platform jingle that plays when trains are arriving. The melody is from the song Sakura by the Japanese pop band, Ikimonogakari (いきものがかり). The Odawara bound platforms 1 and 2 play the intro to the song while the Shinjuku / Chiyoda Line bound platforms 3 and 4 play a short portion from the middle of the song. On 19 April 2021 the Romance Car Museum opened beside the west exit to the station.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 14,307 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[3] During the same period, the Odakyu station was used by an average of 152,370 passengers daily (total)[4] and the Sotetsu portion of the station by 123,214 passengers (total).[5]

The passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal year daily average (JR) daily average (Odakyu) daily average (Sotetsu)
2005 8,001 66,229 58,907 [6]
2010 9,392 65,698 57,022 [7]
2015 11,952 71,873 59,276 [8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "2014年1月から駅ナンバリングを順次導入します！" [From January 2014, station numbering will be introduced sequentially!] (PDF). odakyu.jp (in Japanese). 24 December 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 October 2022. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  2. ^ Kusamichi, Yoshikazu (28 December 2013). "小田急グループ、鉄道から海賊船まで通しの駅番号…2014年1月から順次導入" [Odakyu Group, station numbers from railways to pirate ships, Introduced sequentially from January 2014]. Response Automotive Media (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 22 June 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  3. ^ 各駅の乗車人員 (2019年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2019)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  4. ^ 鉄道部門：1日平均駅別乗降人員 [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2019)] (in Japanese). Japan: Odakyu Electric Railway. 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  5. ^ 相 模 鉄 道 線：乗 降 人 員 [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2019)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanto Traffic Advertising Council. 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  6. ^ 神奈川県県勢要覧（平成18年度） [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2005)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Metropolitan Government. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  7. ^ 神奈川県県勢要覧（平成23年度） [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2010)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Prefecture. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  8. ^ 神奈川県県勢要覧（平成28年度 [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2010)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Prefecture. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2021.

External links

Media related to Ebina Station at Wikimedia Commons