The station is a modern structure but built in a traditional Japanese style with white plaster namako walls to recall the white plaster traditional houses which are a tourist attraction in former Yoshii town nearby.

The station building houses a waiting room and a ticket window.

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

[4][5] Japanese Government Railways (JGR) opened Chikugo-Yoshii on 24 December 1928 as the eastern terminus of a track from Kurume during the first phase of the construction of the Kyūdai Main Line.

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