The station building is a small structure of traditional Japanese plaster wall design which is unstaffed and serves only as a waiting room.

[2][3] The private Daito Railway (大湯鉄道) had opened a track between Ōita and Onoya in 1915.

Subsequently, the track was extended further west and Bungo-Mori was opened as the new western terminus on 15 December 1929.

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

[6] Media related to Hikiji Station at Wikimedia Commons This Oita Prefecture railroad station-related article is a stub.