It is located in the Harras area of the borough of Sendling.

It serves as an important transportation hub for the borough, providing interchange between S-Bahn, U-Bahn, local bus services as well as limited regional railway services on the Bayerische Oberlandbahn main line.

[4] The station is named after a large road intersection, Am Harras, where Albert-Roßhaupter-Straße (east-west) and Plinganserstraße (north-south) meet.

Before the rise of local buses, Am Harras used to be an important tramway interchange station, servicing lines 6 and 8.

Plinganserstraße, running south from Harras, boasts a large green patch dividing the north-south lanes, where the former tramway used to run.