Balti jaam is located in central Tallinn, and is situated immediately northwest of the city's Old town (Estonian: Tallinna vanalinn).

It was a two-storey building constructed from limestone with tower-like extrusions.

During the 1 December 1924 communist coup d'état attempt in Estonia, Karl Kark, the then Minister of Transportation[5] was assassinated by gunshot by pro-Soviet insurgents at the Tallinn Baltic Station.

[6] During World War II in 1941, the station building was set on fire by the Soviet Red Army.

Platforms closer to the station building are mostly used by the commuter trains or long-distance routes to Tartu or Narva.