[4] The station consists of an unnumbered island platform serving two tracks with a siding.

The station building is a modern structure of steel and plate glass and is unstaffed, serving only as a waiting room.

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

[9] The station is located on the western outskirts of the former Nijo-cho, and there are few private houses in the area, but there is a small fishing port and an inn.

It is about 100 meters up a narrow slope from Japan National Route 202, which runs parallel to the Chikuhi Line.