Besides local trains, the Tsurugisan limited express service also stops at Anabuki.

The station building is a large wooden structure with a tiled roof and houses a shop, waiting room, and a JR ticket window (with a Midori no Madoguchi facility).

Access to the island platform is by means of a pedestrian level crossing.

[2][4][5][6] Anabuki Station was opened on 25 March 1914 as one of several intermediate stations built when Japanese Government Railways (JGR) extended the track of the Tokushima Main Line from Awa-Yamakawa to Awa-Ikeda.

With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor to JGR, on 1 April 1987, Anabuki came under the control of JR Shikoku.