The location of the station, next to a large water treatment plant and on a relatively sparsely populated area, was chosen due to its strategic position within the Metro Bilbao network, being the only point apart from Bilbao-Abando railway station and San Mamés station where the metro tracks are in very close proximity to those of Cercanías Bilbao, a commuter rail service serving the left bank of the Bilbao estuary: the tracks from Cercanías C-1 and C-2 lines are located directly below the station.
