The area around the station is the uppermost part of the Seno River system, which flows to Hiroshima City, but it turns into the Kurose River system, which flows to Kure in the east, with the watershed near the Kamigumi district on the east side.

On the northwest side of the station was the Imperial Japanese Army's Kawakami Ammunition Depot, which has been managed by the U.S.

Since the 1960s, the mountains northeast of the station have been cleared to create an industrial park, and much of the paddy fields were reclaimed and converted into a commuter town for Hiroshima and Mihara.

The section near the station on Prefectural Route 46 was the former Sanyōdō highway in the Edo period.

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