The station building is a wooden structure in traditional Japanese style with a tiled roof.

Expanding north in phases and joining up with other networks, the track eventually reached Kokura and the entire stretch from Kokura through Takanabe to Miyakonojō was redesignated as the Nippō Main Line on 15 December 1923.

The original station building was destroyed on July 16, 1945 by an air raid in World War II, and was rebuilt in 1947.

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.

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