Besides a staffed ticket windown, the waiting room doubles as an exhibition area featuring local products.

It staffs the ticket window which is equipped with a POS machine but does not have a Midori no Madoguchi facility.

[4][5] 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 (today Takeo-Onsen) opening as the new western terminus on 5 May 1895.

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