Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Arahata Station is a train station in Sh wa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. A train station, also called a railway station or railroad station, and ofen shortened to just station, is a railway facility where trains regularly stop to load or unload passengers or freight. It generally consists of a platform next to the tracks and a station building providing related services such as ticket sales and waiting rooms. If a station is on a single track main line, it usually has a passing loop to facilitate the traffic.