[3] Besides the local services on both lines, the following JR Kyushu limited express services also stop at the station:[4] The station consists of a side platform and two island platforms serving five tracks at grade.

Elevators give access to the bridge from both the south and north station entrances.

[3][2][4] The private Kyushu Railway had opened a track from Tosu to Saga on 20 August 1891.

In the next phase of expansion, the track was extended westwards with Takeo (today Takeo-Onsen) opening as the new western terminus on 5 May 1895.

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