History
Ebara Station opened on 10 July 1909, when the Government Railways extended the line from Yōka to Toyooka in Hyōgo Prefecture. The route was renamed the Banten Line on 12 October 1909, and in March 1912 the Fukuchiyama–Wadayama–Kasumi section was reclassified into the San'in Main Line, bringing Ebara with it. The narrow-gauge Izushi Railway joined the station on 21 July 1929, was suspended in 1944, and formally abolished on 20 July 1970. Parcel handling ended in March 1985, freight handling in November 1986, and the station passed to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987. The station building was rebuilt on 27 February 1997, ICOCA became valid from 13 March 2021, and the staffed ticket office closed on 5 March 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station served as the JR-line junction with the now-vanished Izushi Railway, which connected toward Izushi town from 1929; the spur was suspended during the war in 1944 and never resumed before being formally abolished in 1970.