The station building is an old timber structure of traditional Japanese design which serves only as a waiting room.

[2][3][4] The private Kitakyushu Railway, which had a track between Hakata and Higashi-Karatsu by 1926 and had expanded southwards to Yamamoto by 1929.

In a later phase of expansion, the track was extended west from Yamamoto to Imari, which opened as the western terminus on 1 March 1935.

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

[7] Media related to Hizen-Nagano Station at Wikimedia Commons This Saga Prefecture railroad station-related article is a stub.