The station is located at the end of the Estación Avenue, next to the Portuguese Way in the neighbourhood of O Gorgullón, in the south of the city.

The Pontevedra station passenger building is a two-floor structure with an elongated, rectangular plan, clad in stone and adorned in its main entrance with an arch in a triangular pediment.

A huge underground passage has been made to replace the old one, which is now transformed into a service gallery.

[4] The station has long and medium distance services operated by Renfe on the Atlantic Axis high-speed rail line.

It also receives freight trains, many of them to the port of Marín and Ria de Pontevedra since 10 July 2002.