It is located at 700 Atlantic Avenue, at the intersection with Beach Street, in the Chinatown/ Leather District neighborhoods. The facility is immediately south-southwest of the main MBTA/Amtrak South Station terminal, and is located above the station platforms and tracks.

The building, completed in 1995, serves as a nexus to consolidate several intercity coach bus locations serving Boston into a single central location. This shift facilitated the removal of the main coach bus terminal at the heart of Dewey Square, a shift from the former Greyhound coach Bus terminal at 10 St.

James Avenue in the Back Bay area, and the transferral of various curbside Chinatown bus lines into this one facility. Facilities Main hall and skylight, surrounded by food concessions and ticket sales counters Continental Trailways service also previously operated from a terminal in the Back Bay, until sometime in the 1980s.Ī second phase of construction, to expand the coach bus terminal, is part of the South Station Tower project.