[3] The station consists of an island platform serving two tracks located on a sidehill cutting.

The station building, located at a lower level than the tracks, is unstaffed and serves only as a waiting room.

Outside the station building is the entrance to an underpass with steps which leads to the island platform.

[2][4][5] Eguchi Station was opened on 25 March 1914 as one of several intermediate stations built when Japanese Government Railways (JGR) extended the track of the Tokushima Main Line from Awa-Yamakawa to Awa-Ikeda.

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