The station building is a v-shaped modern timber structure which is unstaffed and houses a waiting room with a SUGOCA farecard reader.

[3][2][5] The private Kyushu Railway, had opened a track from Tosu to Saga by 5 May 1895, and thereafter expanding southwards in phases, as part of the construction of a line to Nagasaki.

Separately, a track was laid from Urakami (then known as Nagasaki) north to Nagayo, which opened on 22 July 1897 as the terminus.

On 27 November 1898, a link up was made between Nagayo and the track from Tosu which had expanded south to Ōmura.

With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Kyushu.