[3] Besides the Sasebo Line local services, the JR Kyushu Rapid Seaside Liner also stops at the station.

There is no station building but shelters are provided on both platforms as well as automatic ticket vending machines.

Access to the opposite side platform is by means of a level crossing with ramps at both ends.

[3][2][5] Japanese Government Railways (JGR) opened the station on 30 September 1942 as Daitō Signal Box.

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