[3] The station, which is unstaffed, consists of a side platform serving a single track on a low embankment.

This is a simple wooden structure of Japanese design, similar to one that was built two stops up the line at Hizen-Kubo.

[2][3][4] The private Kitakyushu Railway, which had a track between Hakata and Higashi-Karatsu by 1926 and had expanded southwards to Yamamoto by 1929.

In a later phase of expansion, the track was extended west from Yamamoto to Imari, which opened as the western terminus on 1 March 1935.

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