It is located on the elevated Stadtbahn line and served by Berlin S-Bahn trains.

The station is named after nearby Bellevue Palace, the residence of the President of Germany.

The station is located about 2 km (1.2 mi) west of Berlin Hauptbahnhof, close to the Spree river and the southern rim of the Moabit quarter.

The adjacent Modernist residential area was largely rebuilt as part of the 1957 Interbau exhibition.

Today, it is one of the two Stadtbahn stations still partly in its original state (the other being Hackescher Markt).