The station building, an old timber structure, is unstaffed and serves only as a waiting room.

[3][2][4] Japanese Government Railways (JGR) built the station in the 1930s during the development of an alternative route for the Nagasaki Main Line along the coast of the Ariake Sea.

By 1934, a track extended south from Hizen-Yamaguchi (then called the Ariake Line) had reached Tara and another track extended north from Isahaya (called the Ariake West Line) had reached Yue.

In the final phase of construction, a track was laid to link up between Tara and Yue.

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