East Falls Church has the least transit-oriented development of the six stations on the Orange Line in Arlington County.

It opened on June 7, 1986, along with the West Falls Church, Dunn Loring, and Vienna stations.

The East Falls Church station platform was to have been be rebuilt starting in early 2021.

[6] However, due to low ridership caused by the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, platform reconstruction began one year early, along with other maintenance and repair projects on all stations to the west.

An exit in the central part of the platform leads to a mezzanine on the western side of North Sycamore Street.