The single-storey station building has a waiting area and a cafe but the ticket window is unstaffed.

[5][6] A level crossing leads over a track and up a ramp to the island platform.

The station opened on 18 December 1963 as the terminus of a Japanese National Railways (JNR) line from Kubokawa.

After the privatization of JNR, control of the station passed to Tosa Kuroshio Railway on 1 April 1988.

The station is located in the centre of what used to be the municipality of Saga which has now been merged into the town of Kuroshio.