It is operated by the third-sector Tosa Kuroshio Railway and has the station number "TK44".

[4] The station consists of a side platform serving a single elevated track.

There is no station building, but an enclosed shelter is provided on the platform for waiting passengers.

[2][5] The Tosa Kuroshio Railway opened the station on 1 October 1997 as an intermediate station on the Sukumo Line track which was laid down from Nakamura to Sukumo.

[3] Media related to Higashi-Sukumo Station at Wikimedia Commons This Kōchi Prefecture railroad station-related article is a stub.