[3] Besides the local services on the line, the Rapid Seaside Liner also stops at the station.

[5][8] The private Kyushu Railway, in building a line to Nagasaki, had opened a track from Tosu to Saga and Takeo (today Takeo-Onsen) by 5 May 1895 and Haiki by 10 July 1897.

It became a through-station on 27 November that year when the track was further extended to Isahaya, Kikitsu and linking up with an earlier at Nagayo, achieving through-traffic to Urakami, then known as Nagasaki.

On 1 December 1934, another route along the coast of the Ariake Sea designated as the Nagasaki Main Line.

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