The station building is a stonework structure built to resemble a European church complete with sloping roofs and tower with stained glass.

It is, however, unstaffed, and houses only a waiting room and automatic ticket vending machine.

[3][2] Japanese Government Railways (JGR) built the station in the 1930s during the development of an alternative route for the Nagasaki Main Line along the coast of the Ariake Sea.

By 1934, a track extended south from Hizen-Yamaguchi (then called the Ariake Line) had reached Tara and another track extended north from Isahaya (called the Ariake West Line) had reached Yue.

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