In addition, the station is the northern terminus and starting point of the Heisei Chikuho Railway Ita Line.

The Heisei Chikuho Railway part of the station comprises two bay platforms serving two tracks.

[4] The station was opened on 30 August 1891 by the privately run Chikuho Kogyo Railway as the southern terminus of a stretch of track which it had laid from Wakamatsu.

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

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