The station which is located at an altitude of +98 m is included in the Operational Area VI Yogyakarta and only serves economy class trains across south and local or commuter.

In the past, along the Purwosari–Sangkrah route, there were eight small stops, namely Pesanggrahan, Ngadisuran, Bando, Ngapeman, Pasarpon, Cayudan, Kauman, and Lojiwetan.

In the map of the Samarang – Vorstenlanden line published in 1869, the collection of the Dutch Universiteit Leiden, this station is not mentioned at all.

[9] This tile, produced by Alfred Regout & Co., Maastricht, Netherlands, has a size of 20 × 20 cm with an uneven texture to facilitate airflow.

A Batik Solo Trans bus station is located nearby, serving Corridor 2 of the service.

Since November–December 2019, this station has installed signboards to go to certain rooms/track numbers/facilities, track directions along with the distance traveled, as well as monitor screens for information on train departures and arrivals in real time which looks like those at the airport.

This board then became viral on the social media site Facebook due to a writing error in English "departure" under the word "Kedatangan (Arrival)", which was finally corrected on 3 January 2020.