The station building is a small modern functional steel frame structure which is unstaffed and serves only as a waiting room with an automatic ticket vending machine.

The track was extended westwards in phases, with Inukai opening as the new western terminus on 20 July 1917.

By 1928, the track been extended further west and had linked up with the Miyagi Line (宮地線) reaching eastwards from Kumamoto.

On 2 December 1928, the entire track from Kumamoto through Inukai to Ōita was designated as the Hōhi Main Line.

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