 The station was opened on 5 December 1923 as the western terminus of a line which the private Kitakyushu Railway had built from .Hamasaki became a through-station on 7 July 1924 when the track was extended west to .When the Kitakyushu Railway was nationalized on 1 October 1937, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) took over control of the station and designated the line which served it as the Chikuhi Line.