The station has one side platform, serving one bi-directional track.

Kawabe Station opened on October 21, 1938 as Ugo-Kawabe Station (羽後川辺駅, Ugo-Kawabe eki) on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) Yashima Line.

The JGR became the Japan National Railway (JNR) after World War II.

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