The station building is a simple wooden shed of traditional Japanese design with a tiled roof.

It is unstaffed and serves to only to house a waiting room and an automatic ticket machine.

[3][2] The private Kitakyushu Railway had opened a line between Fukuyoshi and Hamasaki on 5 December 1923.

On 7 July 1924, the line was extended westwards with Nijinomatsubara opening as its new western 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.