There are chairs inside the shed, and in addition to displaying timetables and announcements, it also stores snow removal equipment.

There used to be a wooden waiting room on the ground next to the platform, but it was demolished due to deterioration.

With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, JR Hokkaido took over control of the station.

[4] In September 2016, JR Hokkaido announced that it intended to close the station along with two other unstaffed stations on the line (Shimonuma and Minami-Horonobe) in March 2017, due to low passenger usage.

[5] This action was opposed by Horonobe Town, which announced that the town will take over maintenance and management of the station, with funding from hometown tax donations and other sources from fiscal year 2021.