In clinical practice, the lymph nodes can be divided into three stations according to their distance from the stomach; the first station’s are the paragastric lymph nodes. They are coded into groups 1-6 according to the order of cardia right, cardia left, gastric lesser curvature, gastric greater curvature, suprapyloric, and subpyloric lymph nodes; groups 7-16 lymph nodes are in principle ordered by arterial branches and divided into paragastric left artery, parapophysis, paraceliac artery, splenic hilar, parapophysis, intrahepatoduodenal ligament, postpancreatic, superior mesenteric artery, paracolic middle artery, and paracolic abdominal aorta lymph nodes. Usually gastric cancer metastasizes from the primary site to the first station of perigastric lymph nodes via the lymphatic network, and then to the third station as cancer cells innervate the blood vessels of the stomach and metastasize centripetally along the perivascular lymph nodes for the second station. The stations of lymph nodes of gastric cancer in different sites are also different and should be distinguished in clinical practice.