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The Luz Station (Portuguese: Estação da Luz) is the common name for a train station in the Luz neighbourhood in São Paulo, Brazil.

The station is a remain from the period when the coffee was a major source of income to the city. For decades, the station tower dominated the city's skyline and its clock was the reference to the remaining clocks in São Paulo. At its height, in the early 20th century, when the Luz neighbourhood was an important part of the city, the stations was part of an architectonic bloc that was a major reference inside the city. The station helped to build the city's image.

There, visitour can go to the Museum of the Portuguese Language, an interactive museum about the Portuguese language. The objective of the museum is to create a living representation of the Portuguese language, where visitors may be surprised and educated by unusual and unfamiliar aspects of their own native language. Secondly, the caretakers of the museum, as expressed on the museum website "desire that, in this museum, the public has access to new knowledge and reflection, in an intense and pleasurable manner". The museum targets the whole Brazilian population, made up of people from many regions and social backgrounds, but who still have not had the opportunity to gain a broader understanding of the origins, the history and the continuous evolution of the language.