[3] Besides the local trains on the Mugi Line, the station is also the southern terminus for the Muroto limited express service between it and Tokushima.

As the station was until 1973 the southern terminus of the Mugi line, numerous passing loops and sidings branch off from the main tracks.

The station building houses a waiting room and a JR ticket window (without a Midori no Madoguchi facility).

[2][3][6] Japanese Government Railways (JGR) opened the station on 1 July 1942 as the terminus of the Mugi Line which had been extended southwards from Hiwasa.

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