A small station building, of simple concrete construction, serves as a waiting room and houses an automatic ticket vending machine.

Access to the opposite side platform is by means of a footbridge.

[2][3] The station was opened on 10 October 1896 by the private Kyushu Railway as an additional station on a stretch of track which, by 1895, it had laid from Tosu to Yamaguchi (today Hizen-Yamaguchi) and Takeo (today Takeo-Onsen).

On 14 December 1903, another stretch of track which the Kyushu Railway had acquired in 1902 between Miyoken (today Nishi-Karatsu) and Azamibaru (today Taku) was extended south and linked up at Kubota.

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