[3][4] The station is served by the Hisatsu Orange Railway Line that follows the former coastal route of the JR Kyushu Kagoshima Main Line connecting Yatsushiro and Sendai.

[5][6] It is located 80.7 km from the starting point of the line at Yatsushiro.

Origuchi Station was opened on 25 March 1923 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways Sendai Line, which was incorporated into the Kagoshima Main Line on 17 October 1927.

With the privatization of the Japan National Railways on 1 April 1987, the station was transferred to JR Kyushu.

On 13 March 2004, with the opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen, the station was transferred to the Hisatsu Orange Railway.