 On 12 October 1909, the line which served the station was designated the Karatsu Line.The private Kitakyushu Railway, which had a track between and by 1926 also expanded southwards a separate, parallel route down the east bank of the Matsuura River, establishing its southern terminus at Yamamoto on 20 June 1929.By 1935, the track had been extended west from Yamamoto to .