The station building is a timber structure of traditional Japanese design and houses a waiting room and staffed ticket window.

It staffs the ticket window which is equipped with a POS machine but does not have a Midori no Madoguchi facility.

[5][6] The private Kyushu Railway, had opened a track from Tosu to Saga by 5 May 1895, and thereafter expanding southwards in phases, as part of the construction of a line to Nagasaki.

Separately, a track was laid from Urakami (then known as Nagasaki) north to Nagayo, which opened on 22 July 1897 as the terminus.

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