 On 1 December 1934, another route was given the designation Nagasaki Main Line and the track from Haiki, through Sonogi to was designated the Ōmura 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.In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 345 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 288th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.