It is located on a peninsula, surrounded on three sides by water and on the east by the KNSM Island neighbourhood.

The Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland was located here which ran services to the Dutch East Indies, particularly to the island of Java.

[1] In the 1990s the area was transformed into residential units according to a master plan by Amsterdam architect Sjoerd Soeters.

As for transport, tram line 7 terminates at Azartplein (Azart Square), on the eastern edge of Java-eiland.

[1] Notable architecture includes four small canals with post-modernist canal houses from various architects, cycle and pedestrian bridges by Guy Rombouts and Monica Droste, and at the Azartplein two building by the Swiss architectural firm Diener & Diener.