It is unstaffed and serves only to house a waiting area and an automatic ticket vending machine.

After the ticket gate, a short flight of steps leads up to the platform where a separate wooden shed is provided as a weather shelter.

[2][3][4] Japanese Government Railways (JGR) opened the station on 18 July 1917 as an additional station on the existing track of what was then its Hōshū Main Line, subsequently renamed the Nippō Main Line on 15 December 1923.

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

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