Aboda Village

Aboda Village, seen in, is Link's hometown, located by the southwestern shore of the Forest Realm. It is the home of seven people in total, including Niko and Alfonzo. It's also the starting point of Link's journey. The village has three houses, one of which, on the west end, Link shares with Niko. Another, on the east side, shelters a family of four; a cucco-admiring father, a worrywart mother, a knowledgeable daughter, and a mischievous son. In the northern part of the village is Alfonzo's house, which is connected to the Train Station. This house is a garage of sorts where Alfonzo will swap out the Spirit Train's Train Parts for whatever upgrades Link chooses. There is a Stamp Station in the northwest. An empty cucco pen is in the west. There are chests in front of the leftmost and rightmost palm trees, which can only be uncovered with the Song of Discovery, as hinted in a letter from Niko.

Force Gems
If Link brings 10 Cuccos to the man wishing to raise them, he will give Link a Force Gem that will unlock a new section of tracks in the Forest Realm. Also, if Link takes the child with the blue hat to Beedle's Air Shop, he'll be given a Force Gem.

Trivia
In the PAL version of Spirit Tracks, Aboda Village is named Outset Village, possibly implying that Link from The Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass founded the village, his home being Outset Island. This is unlikely to be true because the original name of Outset Island was Puroro Island in the Japanese version of The Wind Waker and the original name of Aboda Village is Moyori Village. The German version bears another slight resemblance to The Wind Waker. Aboda Village is called Prologia there, as it's the main place for the adventure's prologue. Using the same pattern, Outset Island's German name is Präludien. Furthermore, both of Link's hometowns are located in the far southwest of the country.