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

There is no station building, only a rudimentary shelter on the platform which houses an automatic ticket vending machine as well as a SUGOCA card reader.

[3][2][5] Japanese National Railways (JNR) opened Higashisono Signal Box on 1 October 1961 as an additional facility on the existing track of the Nagasaki Main Line.

On 2 October 1972, a shorter inland bypass route was opened between Kikitsu through Ichinuno to Urakami was opened, which became known as the new line or Ichinuno branch of the Nagasaki Main Line.

With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Kyushu.