[3] The station consists of a side platform serving a single track at grade.

With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Kyushu.

[4][5] Because of track damage from the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes, service between Higo-Ōzu to Bungo-Ogi was suspended from April 2016.

JR Kyushu commenced the repair work, starting first with the track from Higo-Ōzu to Tateno.

[8] Media related to Ichinokawa Station at Wikimedia Commons This Kumamoto Prefecture railroad station-related article is a stub.