landing-stage; landing place; wharf
A place where boats dock to load or unload goods or passengers; often a simple wooden structure.
At the landing-stage of the small fishing port, the fishermen were hauling in their nets.
Compound of 揚げ (age, 'lifting up, unloading') + 場 (ba, 'place'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the spelling is conventionally associated with a place for loading and unloading boats.