It was opened on 16 March 2003, and serves the communities nestled between Katsura and Mukō.

Both platforms are connected by stairs, elevators and escalators with the ground level where a ticket gate is located.

[3] Until the work to elevate the tracks was completed on 5 March 2016, each platform had its own ticket gate.

[5] In fiscal 2015 (April 2015 to March 2016), about 4,525,000 passengers used this station annually.

This Kyoto Prefecture railroad station-related article is a stub.