The station building is a modern wooden structure which is unstaffed and serves only as a waiting room with an automatic ticket vending machine.

A ramp leads up to the station building from the forecourt but access to the opposite platform is by means of a footbridge.

By 1928, the track been extended further west and had linked up with the Miyagi Line (宮地線) reaching eastwards from Kumamoto.

On 2 December 1928, the entire track from Kumamoto through Sugao to Ōita was designated as the Hōhi Main Line.

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.