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

The station building is unstaffed and serves only as a waiting room.

There is a siding which branches off track 1 and ends in a vehicle shed near the station building.

[2][3][5] Sanuki-Tsuda Station was opened on 21 March 1926 as the terminus of the Kōtoku Line when the track was extended eastwards from Shido.

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