kare ha sakki ie wo deta tokoro dakara, eki ni tuku made ato zyuppun kurai kakaru.

は marks 彼 as the topic of the sentence.

So 彼は means something like as for him.... After that, the sentence tells you what is true about him. In English we often just say he, but Japanese often separates the idea of topic from subject.

In this sentence, 彼は sets up him as the person being talked about for the rest of the statement.

さっき means a little while ago / just now / earlier.

It points to a recent time in the past. In this sentence, it tells you that he left the house very recently.

• さっき = a little while ago
• 今 = now
• もう = already / anymore / soon, depending on context

So さっき is the word that gives the sentence its recent past feeling.

This is a very common question.

Even though 出る is an intransitive verb, Japanese often uses を to mark the place that someone leaves or passes through.

So:

• 家を出る = leave the house
• 部屋を出る = leave the room
• 道を歩く = walk along the road
• 公園を通る = pass through the park

Here, を does not mean the house is a direct object in the English sense. It marks the place that movement starts from or goes through.

Vたところ can mean just did V or be at the point immediately after doing V.

So 家を出たところ means he has just left the house or he is right at the stage of having left the house.

The important nuance is that the action happened very recently. It is not just simple past left; it has a just now feeling.

Yes, in many situations 出たばかり would be very similar.

• 出たところ = just left; focuses on the exact stage or moment right after leaving
• 出たばかり = just left; emphasizes that not much time has passed

In this sentence, ところ works very naturally because the speaker is reasoning from the current situation: since he is at the point of having just left...

So ところ slightly highlights the timing/state, while ばかり highlights recency.

だから means so / therefore / because that is the case.

It connects the first part and the second part:

• 彼はさっき家を出たところだから
• 駅に着くまであと十分くらいかかる

The logic is:

• He only just left home,
• so / therefore
• it will take about ten more minutes for him to get to the station.

It is giving the reason for the estimate.

Because まで can attach not only to nouns, but also to a verb clause.

Here:

• 駅に着く = arrive at the station
• 駅に着くまで = until he arrives at the station / before he gets to the station

So this is not just to the station in a simple spatial sense. It means up to the point of arriving at the station.

That is why the full phrase works well with かかる:

• 駅に着くまであと十分くらいかかる
• it will take about ten more minutes until he gets to the station

With 着く, the particle に marks the destination or point of arrival.

So:

• 駅に着く = arrive at the station
• 学校に着く = arrive at school
• 家に着く = arrive home

This is standard usage with 着く.

Here あと means another / more / remaining.

So あと十分くらい means about ten more minutes or about ten minutes left.

It tells you this is the amount of time from now until arrival, not the total trip time from the beginning.

Examples:

• あと五分 = five more minutes
• あと一つ = one more
• あと少し = a little more

くらい means about / approximately.

So:

• 十分 = ten minutes
• 十分くらい = about ten minutes

It softens the number and shows it is an estimate, not an exact measurement.

You can also often use ぐらい with the same meaning. In most everyday cases, くらい and ぐらい are interchangeable.

Because the speaker is talking about the time it will take from now.

Even though he already left the house, the remaining travel time is still in the present/future from the speaker’s point of view.

So:

• 出た = he left
• かかる = it takes / will take

Japanese non-past often covers both present and future.

Here かかる means it will take.

The thing that takes time is the event or process of getting to the station.

So the understood subject is something like:

• 駅に着くまで = the time until he arrives at the station

Japanese often leaves this kind of subject unstated because it is obvious from the structure.

So あと十分くらいかかる literally has the sense of:

• it takes about ten more minutes
• or more naturally in English,
• it’ll take about ten more minutes

In many real conversations, Japanese would often omit 彼 if the person is already understood from context.

For example, someone might simply say:

• さっき家を出たところだから、駅に着くまであと十分くらいかかる。

That would sound very natural if everyone already knows who is being discussed.

So 彼 is grammatically fine, but in natural speech Japanese often drops pronouns when they are not necessary.

It is clearly an estimate.

The clues are:

• さっき = recently, not exact
• ところ = just left
• あと = remaining time
• 十分くらい = about ten minutes

So the speaker is not reporting measured data. They are making a reasonable guess based on the fact that he left only a little while ago.

Yes, ので would be possible:

• 彼はさっき家を出たところなので、駅に着くまであと十分くらいかかる。

Both mean roughly since/because he just left home...

The difference is mostly tone:

• だから is a bit more direct and conversational
• ので is a bit softer and sometimes a little more formal or explanatory

In everyday speech, だから sounds very natural here.