The station was opened on 10 October 1896 by the private Kyushu Railway as an additional station on a stretch of track which, by 1895, it had laid from to Yamaguchi (today ) and Takeo (today ). On 14 December 1903, another stretch of track which the Kyushu Railway had acquired in 1902 between Miyoken (today ) and Azamibaru (today ) was extended south and linked up at Kubota. When the Kyushu Railway was nationalized on 1 July 1907, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) took over control of the station. On 12 October 1909, the track to Yamaguchi became the Nagasaki Main Line while the track to Nishi-Karatsu became the Karatsu Line. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Kyushu.
