How to say "platform" in Japanese

• ホームJLPT N3approx.Common
  nounA station platform — where you wait for and board trains. It is the shortened form of プラットホーム, and the two are used interchangeably for this sense.
  列車れっしゃは１０番ばんホームに到着とうちゃくします。↗

  The train will come in at platform ten.
• プラットホームJLPT N2approx.Common
  nounThe full loanword for a station platform; ホーム is its abbreviation. Both are common words for exactly the same thing.
  ジョンはプラットホームでメアリーを待まっている。↗

  John is waiting for Mary on the platform.
• 台だいJLPT N3approx.Common
  noun, noun (suffix)For 'platform' it covers the sense of a raised base or stand — a pedestal or support that something rests on. It is not the word for a station platform or a speaker's podium.
  この台だいの上うえに花瓶かびんを置おいてはいけません。↗

  Please don't place a vase on this stand.
• 壇だんJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounA raised platform that a person stands on to speak — a podium, rostrum, or pulpit. For the speaker's platform at a speech or ceremony, this is the word.
• 高座こうざCommon
  nounA raised stage on which a performer sits — the elevated stage of traditional comic storytelling (rakugo) — or an elevated seat of honor; for a general 'platform' it is seldom the word you want.

For a train station platform use 「ホーム」 or its full form 「プラットホーム」; for a raised base or stand use 台; for a speaker's platform use 壇; 高座 is the special raised stage of traditional storytelling.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

• ホームplatform
• プラットホームplatform
• 台だいstand
• 壇だんplatform
• 高座こうざplatform
• 演壇えんだんrostrum
• 綱領こうりょうgeneral plan
• 政治要綱せいじようこうplatform (e.g. of a party)
• 置き台おきだいstand
• 歩廊ほろうcorridor
• 安定大陸あんていたいりくstabilized continent
• 上げ底あげぞこfalse bottom
• 教壇きょうだん(teacher's) platform
• 乗降場じょうこうじょう(station) platform
• 雲台うんだい(camera) platform
• デッキplatform (at the end of a railway passenger car)
• 基盤きばんplatform
• 演台えんだいrostrum
• 座ざstand