[3] The station consists of two side platforms serving two tracks at grade.

The station building is a wooden structure of traditional Japanese design.

Access to the opposite side platform is by means of a footbridge.

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

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