Mula sa istasyon, sa kaliwa ang parke at sa kanan ang opisina.

Mula sa istasyon means from the station and sets the reference point for the whole sentence. It tells you the point from which left and right are being judged.

So the sentence is understood as:

• From the station, the park is on the left and the office is on the right.

In Filipino, it is very common to put this kind of setting or reference phrase at the beginning.

Mula sa means from.

It is made up of:

• mula = from
• sa = a marker often used for places, directions, and general locations

So:

• mula sa istasyon = from the station

A very common alternative in everyday speech is galing sa, which also means from.

Sa is a very common Filipino marker. In this sentence, it appears in different location-related expressions:

• mula sa istasyon = from the station
• sa kaliwa = on the left / to the left
• sa kanan = on the right / to the right

So even though it is the same word, its exact English translation depends on the phrase it is part of.

A useful idea is that sa often points to a place, direction, or position.

Filipino often leaves out the verb to be in simple identifying or location-type sentences.

So instead of saying something literally like:

• the park is on the left

Filipino can say:

• sa kaliwa ang parke

which naturally means:

• the park is on the left

This is normal and very common. Filipino does not always need a separate word for is/are the way English does.

In Filipino, the predicate or descriptive part often comes first, and the ang phrase comes after it.

So:

• sa kaliwa ang parke
• literally: on the left the park
• natural meaning: the park is on the left

This word order is very common.

You can also hear more explicit versions such as:

• Ang parke ay nasa kaliwa.

That structure may feel closer to English learners because ang parke comes first, but sa kaliwa ang parke is perfectly natural too.

Ang marks the noun being highlighted as the topic or focus of the clause.

In this sentence:

• ang parke = the park
• ang opisina = the office

These are the things being located.

So in:

• sa kaliwa ang parke

the location phrase comes first, and ang parke is the thing that is in that location.

By itself, kaliwa means left.

With sa, it becomes a location or direction phrase:

• sa kaliwa = on the left / to the left
• sa kanan = on the right / to the right

So the sa is important because it helps turn left/right into a positional phrase.

The repetition makes the structure clear and balanced:

• sa kaliwa ang parke
• sa kanan ang opisina

Each half has its own full location phrase. This is the most natural and standard way to say it.

Leaving out the second sa would sound incomplete or unnatural in normal Filipino.

It can work for either situation, depending on context.

The key idea is that the station is the reference point. From that reference point:

• the park is on the left
• the office is on the right

So it could describe:

• what you see when facing a certain way from the station
• the layout of places around the station
• directions someone is giving you

Context tells you exactly how it should be understood.

Yes. That version is also correct and is a bit more explicit.

Compare:

• Mula sa istasyon, sa kaliwa ang parke at sa kanan ang opisina.
• Mula sa istasyon, ang parke ay nasa kaliwa at ang opisina ay nasa kanan.

The second version includes:

• ay = a linker used in one common sentence pattern
• nasa = in/on/at a location

Both are natural, but the original sentence is more compact and very typical of Filipino word order.

Both can mean from.

• mula sa is slightly more formal or neutral
• galing sa is very common in everyday speech

So:

• Mula sa istasyon...
• Galing sa istasyon...

can both work in many contexts.

However, mula sa is especially common in written Filipino and in clear descriptive sentences like this one.