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

Automatic ticket vending machines and a Sugoca farecard reader are provided.

[3][2][5] The private Kitakyushu Railway had opened a track between Fukuyoshi and Hamasaki on 5 December 1923.

Ikisan was opened on 29 April 1924 as an additional station on the existing track between Fukuyoshi and Maebaru.

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