The fastest journey time between Sapporo and Obihiro is approximately 2 hours and 25 minutes by the Ōzora.

The station consists of two elevated island platforms serving four tracks.

The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office and also a Twinkle Plaza travel agency.

Both of these lines closed for service in February[4] and March 1987[5] respectively owing to the JNR reconstruction act.

With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Hokkaido.