sentences:  The station was opened on 20 August 1891 by the private Kyushu Railway as the western terminus of a line from .It became a through station on 5 May 1895 when the track was extended west to Yamaguchi (today ) and Takeo (today ).When the Kyushu Railway was nationalized on 1 July 1907, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) took over control of the station.