[3][4] The location of the station, next to a large water treatment plant and on a relatively sparsely populated area, was chosen due to its strategic position within the Metro Bilbao network, being the only point apart from Bilbao-Abando railway station and San Mamés station where the metro tracks are in very close proximity to those of Cercanías Bilbao, a commuter rail service serving the left bank of the Bilbao estuary: the tracks from Cercanías C-1 and C-2 lines are located directly below the station.

The project of construction an interchange station between the metro and Cercanías at Urbinaga was first announced in 2009, with an agreement for its construction signed between Adif and the Biscay Transport Consortium in 2011.

[5] The project was to be executed in phases, with the first one expected to begin in autumn of 2011 involving the setting of new railway tracks for Cercanías and the construction of a new station for the service, linking it to the existing metro station.

Urbinaga station is an elevated station located entirely on a curved viaduct, due to the necessity of adapting to the difficult orography of the area.

The station is also served by Bizkaibus regional bus services.