The station building is a modern, functional structure that is built from glass and steel and is unstaffed- serving only to house a waiting area for passengers.

From the access road, it is necessary for visitors to climb a short flight of stairs to enter the station building itself.

[2][3] On 28 April 1929, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) opened the Kokuto East Line (国都東線) from Nishi-Miyakonojō to Takarabe.

By 1932, the track had been linked up with other networks to the north and south, and through traffic had been established from Kokura, passing through this station onto Kagoshima.

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