[3] The station, which is unstaffed, consists of two side platforms serving two tracks on an embankment.

From the access road, a steep flight of stairs leads up to the station building, a small, modern stonework structure which houses a waiting area and an automatic ticket vending machine.

[2][3][4] The private Kyushu Railway had, by 1909, through acquisition and its own expansion, established a track from Kokura to Yanagigaura.

Japanese Government Railways (JGR), designated the track as the Hōshū Main Line on 12 October 1909 and expanded it southwards in phases, with Saiki opening as the new southern terminus on 25 October 1916.

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.