Kaunas railway station was included into the Registry of Immovable Cultural Heritage Sites of the Republic of Lithuania in 2003.

[2] After the Russian Empire lost the Crimean War, the importance of tactical modern inventions, such as railways, became evident.

In the territory of Lithuania, the construction of the railway section Daugavpils–Vilnius–Grodno including the branch Lentvaris–Kaunas–Kybartai (Virbalis) was started in spring 1859.

Its architecture was based on the principles of classicism: strict symmetry, separate and large-scale inner spaces, horizontally continued shape, massive walls and centrally oriented stairs.

[6] These run on the non-electrified single track standard-gauge railway built as a first stage of the Rail Baltica project.