It houses a waiting area as well as the premises and information centre of the Kokonoe Town Tourism Association.

The association also acts as a kan'i itaku agent and manages the ticket window 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-Nakamura was opened as the new western terminus on 28 October 1928.

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.

Subsequently, the Kokonoe Town Tourism Association moved its offices to the station building and set up an information centre there in October 2013.