The station building is elevated: the automatic ticket vending machines and ticket gate being located on a bridge which leads to the platform from the access road.

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

By 1 April 1924, the line had been extended east to Maebaru (today Chikuzen-Maebaru).

When the Kitakyushu Railway was nationalized on 1 October 1937, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) took over control of the station and designated the line which served it as the Chikuhi Line.

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