Los Angeles Union Station, Railway terminal in Downtown Los Angeles, United States

Los Angeles Union Station is a railway terminal in Downtown Los Angeles, United States. The waiting hall stretches several hundred feet and shows painted wooden ceilings with crossbeams, arches made of California limestone, and floor tiles with geometric patterns.

Los Angeles Union Station opened in May 1939 as the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, consolidating the Santa Fe, Southern Pacific and Union Pacific terminals after a contested 1926 ballot measure. Its site was taken from the old Chinatown, demolished for the project, and construction uncovered remains of the Tongva village of Yaanga. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

The station's name comes from its role as a union terminal shared by the Santa Fe, Southern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads from 1939. Its design mixes Spanish Mission and Streamline Moderne elements, with an eight-pointed star used in the detailing. The interior walls are travertine below and acoustic tile above, and the main rooms have terracotta tile floors with marble and travertine set into the central passageways.

The Patsaouras Transit Plaza, the bus terminal, sits on the east side of the station and is reached through a passage beneath the tracks. Metro B and D subway platforms lie almost directly under that passage, with stairways on the east and west concourse sides; the A light rail platform runs at ground level along the westernmost track. FlyAway buses leave from the plaza for Los Angeles International Airport.

The station was built on fill dirt three to twenty feet deep over the demolished old Chinatown, which itself stood on the remains of the Tongva village of Yaanga. Archaeologists reported in 1992 that intact prehistoric deposits may still lie beneath the site. The 2021 Academy Awards ceremony was held in the station.