basu no noriba ha eki no mae ni arimasu.

It can be read as:

バス の のりば は えき の まえ に あります。
Romanized: basu no noriba wa eki no mae ni arimasu

A few reading notes:

• 乗り場 is written with kanji but read のりば
• は is written ha but pronounced wa when it marks the topic
• あります is pronounced arimasu

乗り場 means boarding place or place where you get on.

It comes from:

• 乗る（のる） = to ride / to get on
• 場（ば） = place

So 乗り場 is literally a place for getting on.

In this sentence, it means the place where you board the bus.

The の links two nouns together.

• バス = bus
• 乗り場 = boarding place

So:

• バスの乗り場 = bus boarding place
• more naturally in English: the bus stop / the place to board the bus

This の works a lot like of or like the English noun-noun relationship in phrases such as school bus, train station, or office door.

は marks the topic of the sentence.

So バスの乗り場は means something like:

• As for the bus boarding area...
• The bus stop...

The sentence is then telling you where that topic is.

A very literal structure is:

• Bus boarding place
  • topic marker
    • station front
      • at
        • exists

In natural English, we just say The bus stop is in front of the station.

This is the same basic noun + の + noun pattern.

• 駅（えき） = station
• 前（まえ） = front / before

So:

• 駅の前 = the front of the station
• more naturally: in front of the station

Japanese often builds location expressions this way:

• 学校の中 = inside the school
• 家の後ろ = behind the house
• 店の横 = next to the store

に marks the location where something exists.

So:

• 駅の前にあります = it exists in front of the station / it is in front of the station

With existence verbs, に is very common:

• 机の上に本があります。 = There is a book on the desk.
• 公園にベンチがあります。 = There is a bench in the park.

In this sentence, に tells you the place where the bus boarding area is located.

Japanese usually uses:

• あります for inanimate things and places
• います for people and animals

A bus stop or boarding area is not alive, so あります is used.

Compare:

• 猫がいます。 = There is a cat.
• 駅の前にバス停があります。 = There is a bus stop in front of the station.

Usually, あります is the more natural choice here because the sentence is about location/existence.

• 駅の前にあります = is located in front of the station

If you used です, it would sound like an identification statement rather than an existence/location statement, and it would not fit as naturally with に in this pattern.

So for saying where something is located, あります is the standard choice.

They are similar, but not always exactly the same.

• バス停（バスてい） = bus stop
• バスの乗り場 = the place where you board the bus

In many everyday situations, they may refer to the same place. But 乗り場 focuses more specifically on the boarding area. In large stations or terminals, there may be several different 乗り場 for different buses.

So バスの乗り場 can sound a little more specific than just バス停.

Japanese often puts the topic first, then the location, and the verb at the end.

So the structure here is:

• バスの乗り場は = as for the bus boarding place
• 駅の前に = in front of the station
• あります = exists / is located

That gives:

• As for the bus boarding place, it is in front of the station.

This is very normal Japanese word order. The verb often comes last.

Yes, but the nuance changes.

• バスの乗り場は 駅の前にあります。
  This sounds like speaking about the bus stop as the topic.

• バスの乗り場が 駅の前にあります。
  This can sound more like the bus stop is the thing that is in front of the station, possibly with a more specific or contrastive feel depending on context.

For a basic location statement in a textbook-style sentence, は is very natural.

No. Standard Japanese is usually written without spaces.

Normally this sentence would be written as:

バスの乗り場は駅の前にあります。

Spaces are often added in beginner materials to make it easier to see the parts of the sentence.

In this sentence, yes, 前 means the physical location in front of the station.

But 前 can also mean before in a time sense:

• 五分前 = five minutes before
• 食べる前 = before eating

So 前 can refer to either:

• space = in front of
• time = before

Here, because it follows 駅の and is used with にあります, it clearly means location.

A very literal breakdown is:

• バス = bus
• の = linking particle
• 乗り場 = boarding place
• は = topic marker
• 駅 = station
• の = linking particle
• 前 = front
• に = at / in
• あります = exists / is located

So the sentence is literally something like:

As for the bus boarding place, it exists at the front of the station.

That sounds unnatural in English, but it shows how the Japanese sentence is built.