It lies on the southeastern edge of the historic town centre, from which it is separated by the Varde River.

The still existing station building from 1874 was built to designs by the Danish architect Niels Peder Christian Holsøe (1826–1895), known for the numerous railway stations he designed across Denmark in his capacity of head architect of the Danish State Railways.

These station buildings consisted of a high transverse central section flanked by two lower one-story shoulder parts.

[6] The accessible station offers ticket machines, waiting shelters, toilets as well as car and bicycle parking.

The station offers direct regional rail services to Esbjerg, Skjern, Herning and Aarhus, as well as local train services to Oksbøl and Nørre Nebel in the northwestern part of Varde Municipality, all operated by the railway company GoCollective.