The station building is timber structure, remodelled in 2013, built in traditional Japanese style with tiled roofs and steeply angled eaves.

It staffs the ticket counter which is equipped with a POS machine but does not have a Midori no Madoguchi facility.

Subsequently, the track was extended further west and Bungo-Mori was opened as the new western terminus on 15 December 1929.

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

[8][9] In 2013, the station building was renovated in preparation for the arrival of the luxury train Seven Stars in Kyushu.