[4] The station consists of a side platform serving a single track.

The station building is unstaffed and serves only as a waiting room.

Access to the platform is by means of a ramp from the station building.

[2][3][5] Japanese Government Railways (JGR) opened Aratano Station on 27 June 1937 as an intermediate station when the Mugi Line was extended southwards from Kuwano to Awa-Fukui.

On 1 April 1987, with the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, JR Shikoku took over control of the station.