The current station is a timber-steel hybrid structure built in 2008 by Naito Architecture & Associates.

The station building was constructed over a period of more than 10 years with the cooperation of architecture and urban experts, railway officials, government officials, and citizens, including architect Hiroshi Naito and Osamu Shinohara of the University of Tokyo.

Cedar was used because there was a strong request from the local community for it to be used, and although it is an elevated station, it is built to resemble a wooden structure.

In September 2008, the station biolding won the Grand Prize at the Brunel Award, an international design contest related to railways.

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