A station building of tradition Japanese design with a tiled roof is located underneath the elevated structure and houses a waiting room and a JR ticket window (with a Midori no Madoguchi facility) on level 1.

An elevator is provided after the ticket gate on level 1 which leads directly to platforms 1 and 2 only.

[2][5][6][3] The station was opened on 1 February 1920 as a terminus of the private Ehime Railway (愛媛鉄道, Ehime Tetsudō), a 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) light railway line starting from Wakamiya Junction (若宮連絡所, Wakamiya-renraku-sho), near Nagahama-machi (the present Iyo-Nagahama).

On October 6, 1935, after the track had been re-gauged to 1,067 mm, the station became part of the Uchiko Line.

With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Shikoku.