[4] The station, which is unstaffed, consists of a side platform serving a single track.

[2][3][5] The station was opened by the privately run Awa Electric Railway (later the Awa Railway) on 1 January 1924 as Tenrikyōmae Stop (天理教前停留場, Tenrikyōmae-teiryūba).

It was upgraded and renamed as Kyōkaimae Station and operated it as part of the Awa Line.

On 1 April 1987, with the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, the station came under the control of JR Shikoku.

[6][7] In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 72 passengers daily[8] Media related to Kyōkaimae Station at Wikimedia Commons This Tokushima Prefecture railroad station-related article is a stub.