[2] It is located in the municipality of Tavros in the regional unit of South Athens, Attica, near the boundary with Kallithea.

The station is also known as Tavros-Eleftherios Venizelou, after the former Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos.

The first proposals for a station were made in 1925, when engineer Alexander Verdelis demarcated the Harokopou station at almost the same location as part of his proposal to build a wider subway network for the capital.

[3] Construction of the plant began in 1988, and opened on 6 February 1989[4] at a cost of 200 million drachmas.

In the past the station was the southern terminus of a peak hour train service "Tavros-Ano Patissia",[5] later extended as "Tavros-Irini".