[3] Besides local services, the Uzushio limited express between Okayama, Takamatsu and Tokushima also stops at the station.

[4] Ritsurin Station consists of an island platform serving two tracks.

The waiting room and a JR ticket window (with a Midori no Madoguchi facility) are located on level 2.

Ritsurin Station was opened on 21 December 1925 as an intermediate stop a few months after the track of the Kōtoku Line had been extended eastwards from Takamatsu to Shido.

With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Shikoku.