Surabaya Gubeng station was first built on the west side of the railway tracks.
In the mid-1990s, new Surabaya Gubeng station building was built on the east side of railway tracks, which are wider and has more modern architecture.
On 7 June 1996, a new station building with an area of 13,671 m2 was completed on the east side of the railroad tracks with a more modern and wider architecture — the construction was estimated to cost Rp1.5 billion.
Tjokroaminoto was released from prison in April 1922, three months later Sukarno returned to study at THB.
The station has been equipped with signages to go to certain rooms, track numbers, and certain facilities; as well as track direction signs along with the distance traveled and monitor screens of real-time train departure and arrival information that look like those at an airport.
As of 2020, the signages designs has been adjusted to ISO 7001:2007 standards by the 2021 Christmas and New Year season.