駅

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 駅, read えき, is a noun for a railway station where passengers board and leave trains.
• Basic usage: It often appears as a starting point, destination, or meeting place.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Endpoint and direction
  • 学校から駅まで sets the school as the starting point and the station as the endpoint.
  • 駅へ行った means having gone to the station, with へ marking the direction of travel.
• Travel time
  • 歩いて十分 means a ten-minute walk. Here, 十分 is an amount of time, not 'enough' or 'sufficient.'