The station shares a large two-storey building with the local chamber of commerce and industry.

The station part of the building is unstaffed and only houses a waiting room and automatic ticket vending machines.

Access to the platform from the station building is by means of a short flight of steps.

[3][2] Japanese Government Railways (JGR) opened Kami-Honami on 15 July 1928 as an intermediate station when it extended the track of the then Nagao Line from Nagao (now Keisen to a new southern terminus at Chikuzen-Uchino.

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