It was also the westernmost high-speed Shinkansen railway station in Japan, though this title was taken over by Nagasaki Station with the opening of the West Kyushu Shinkansen on 23 September 2022.

The station building is elevated above the tracks and has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

In fiscal 2020, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 2022 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 70th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.

[5] During the same period, the Hisatsu Orange Railway portion of the station was used by 105 passengers daily.

[6] Media related to Sendai Station (Kagoshima) at Wikimedia Commons