[3] Aside from the local services on the line, some trains of the Rapid Seaside Liner also stop at the station.

A siding branches off the main tracks and runs in between the station building and the platforms.

The station building, a modern steel-frame structure, is unstaffed and serves as a waiting room with an automated ticket vending machine.

[2][3][5] The private Kyushu Railway, in building a line to Nagasaki, had opened a track southwards from Tosu to Saga and Takeo (today Takeo-Onsen) by 1895.

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