There are also three siding tracks.The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

[2] The ticket gate is only at the south exit (southwest side) of the station, but there is an underground free passage (different from the underground passage to the platform) adjacent to the station building that connects the south exit and the northeast side.The Hitahikosan Line BRT departs from and arrives at the boarding area located at the rotary in front of the station (south exit).

In 1915, the Daito Railway Co. opened the 22 km Oita - Onoya section.

The company was nationalised in 1922, and westerly extensions were undertaken in stages from 1923 until Amagase was reached in 1933.

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.