The station affords direct access to the Magasin du Nord department store.

Kongens Nytorv station opened as part of the initial segment of the Copenhagen Metro, with trains running west to Nørreport and east to either Vestamager or Lergravsparken.

Kongens Nytorv is built and designed in the same style as other underground stations on the Copenhagen Metro.

There are two entrances to the station as well: the southwestern corner of the intersection of Kongens Nytorv, Lille Kongensgade, Holmens Kanal, and Store Kongensgade and the other inside the Magasin du Nord department store.

Both original Copenhagen Metro lines, the M1 and the M2, serve Kongens Nytorv.