The station building is timber structure in western style which houses a waiting area and SUGOCA card reader.

In the meantime, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) had opened the Miyazaki Line from Yoshimatsu to Miyakonojō on 8 October 1913 and had been expanding east and north towards Miyazaki in phases, reaching Aoidake by 21 March 1916.

On 15 December 1923, the entire stretch of track from Shigeoka through Miyazaki to Yoshimatsu, including Kiyotake, was designated as part of the Nippō Main Line.

Freight operations were discontinued in 1971 and baggage handling in 1984.With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, Kiyotake came under the control of JR Kyushu.

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