The station building is a modern flat-roofed concrete structure which houses a waiting area, a staffed ticket window, an automatic ticket vending machine, and SUGOCA card reader and charge machine.

It staffs the ticket booth which is equipped with a POS machine but does not have a Midori no Madoguchi facility.

A new track was laid heading north from Hyūga-Sumiyoshi to Takanabe which opened on 11 September 1920.

Expanding north from Takanabe in phases and joining up with other networks, the track eventually reached Kokura and the entire stretch from Kokura through Hirose to Miyakonojō was redesignated as the Nippō Main Line on 15 December 1923.

With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Kyushu.