[2] Both local and the Rapid Niseko Liner services stop at the station.

[3] The station consists of two opposed side platforms serving two tracks at grade.

(Kan'i itaku station) The station was opened on 15 October 1904 by the private Hokkaido Railway as an intermediate station during a phase of expansion when its track from Hakodate to Neppu was extended to link up with stretches of track further north to provide through traffic from Hakodate to Otaru.

On 1 April 1968, Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, renamed the station to Niseko.

With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Hokkaido.