The station building is a timber structure which presently serves only as a waiting room.

[3][2] The private Kyushu Railway had opened a track from Tosu to Saga on 20 August 1891.

In the next phase of expansion, the track was extended westwards with Takeo (today Takeo-Onsen) opening as the new western terminus on 5 May 1895.

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

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