It serves an average of 3.5 million people per year and is a 5-minute walk to the city's main street and to the beach.

The initial draft of a new passenger building was drawn up in 1962 by Corrado Cameli Service Work for the FS.

This draft proposed a steel-frame structure of the new station building, but changed to pre-stressed concrete in 1970, when structural calculations were carried out by the Studio Engineer Giovanni Cerasoli and Piero di Pescara, with the advice from the engineer Carlo Guidi Baskets.

The modern-day building is one of the earliest constructions to be made of pre-stressed concrete among Italian railway stations.

During the night hours, entry into the station building is only permitted for passengers with valid InterCity Notte (ICN) tickets.