Kagaonsen Station is served by the IR Ishikawa Railway Line.

It became a station on the Hokuriku Shinkansen when the extension of that line west of Kanazawa opened on 16 March 2024.

The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

[2] With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR West.

[2] Effective the timetable revision on 16 March 2024, the Hokuriku Shinkansen began operations at the station while the facilities of the Hokuriku Main Line were transferred to the IR Ishikawa Railway.