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

It was an intermediate station along a track extension from Yamase to Kawada and Funato (both now closed).

When the company was nationalized on 1 September 1907, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) took over control of the station and operated it as part of the Tokushima Line (later the Tokushima Main Line).

On 1 April 1957, Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, changed the name of the station to Awa-Yamakawa.

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