The station building is a simple functional shed which is unstaffed and serves only to house a waiting area.

[2][3][4] On 28 April 1929, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) opened the Kokuto East Line (国都東線) from Nishi-Miyakonojō to Takarabe.

By 1932, the track had been linked up with other networks north and south, and through traffic had been established from Kokura, through this station to Kagoshima.

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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