Orikasa Station have a single side platform serving traffic in both directions.

The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.

The station was washed away by the March 11, 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

[1] As of 2018, the station was rebuilt along with the rest of the closed segment of the Yamada Line.

Its location is somewhat north of the original site flooded by the tsunami.