[3] Besides the local services on the Sasebo Line, the JR Kyushu Limited Express services Midori (from Hakata to Sasebo) and Huis Ten Bosch (from Hakata to Huis Ten Bosch) also stop at this station.

The station complex has entrances north and south of the tracks and is a modern structure completed in 2009.

[3][2][4] The private Kyushu Railway had opened a track from Tosu to Saga on 20 August 1891.

In the next phase of expansion, the track was extended westwards with Takeo-Onsen opening as the new western terminus on 5 May 1895 with the name Takeo.

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

On 26 March 2008, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan granted permission for the start of construction.