The station is located in the municipality of Etxebarri, part of the Bilbao metropolitan area.

The metro station is the starting point of the two lines of the system; line 1 connects the station with the neighborhood of Santa Marina, crossing the main urban area of the city, while line 2 links the metro station with the Legizamon area.

It involved the construction of a new underground line between the towns of Etxebarri and Galdakao, ultimately reaching the Galdakao-Usansolo hospital.

[5] The economic crisis that has since affected the region has delayed the project and altered some aspects of it.

In May 2018, the Basque Nationalist Party and the Socialist Party of the Basque Country presented a new proposal which suggested the possibility of taking advantage of the existing overground rail infrastructure between Etxebarri and Galdakao currently managed by Euskotren Trena in place of the original underground project.