Kanagawa University's Yokohama Campus is about a 13-minute walk from Higashi-Hakuraku Station. Here are the 15 cheapest stations within roughly 30 minutes* of it, sorted by studio rent. Balancing rent and commute time is the key to a comfortable first apartment in Tokyo — start your search from this list.
Kanagawa University splits its students between two campuses: Yokohama (Law, Economics, Human Science, Science, Engineering, Architecture, Chemistry and Life Science, and Informatics faculties) and Minatomirai (Business Administration, Foreign Languages, and International Japanese Studies). Each faculty stays at its assigned campus for all four years, with no relocation. This page covers the Yokohama campus.
The real favorite is Hakuraku Station, about a 15-minute walk from campus, where the Rokkakubashi shopping street by the west exit is packed with student-friendly restaurants and chain stores. Neighboring Higashi-Hakuraku Station is another option, while Katakuracho Station — about 4 minutes from Shin-Yokohama — offers a greener, quieter, and relatively cheaper alternative. Yokohama Station itself is the most convenient but also the priciest.
The ranking below centers on stations in southern Yokohama along the Keikyu Line and the municipal subway, such as Gumyoji, Maita, and Yamate — not a single station overlaps with the real favorites of Hakuraku, Higashi-Hakuraku, and Katakuracho, both on the Tokyu Toyoko Line and the subway's northern stretch. Use the Hakuraku rent level as your baseline, and treat the ranking below as a guide to the southern Yokohama option instead.
Gumyoji combines a historic temple, a lively arcade, and two usable lines (Keikyu + Blue Line) about 10–15 minutes from Yokohama.
Gumyoji (Blue Line) sits on the Kamakura-kaido side of the arcade district, with quick subway rides to Kamiooka and Yokohama.
Maita is a hillside Blue Line stop ~7 minutes from Kannai — an understated way to live near central Yokohama cheaply.
Yamate is walking distance from Motomachi and Yokohama's western-style bluff mansions — more affordable than its elegant image suggests.
Nishi-Yokohama is two Sotetsu stops from Yokohama with an old shopping street nearby — a hidden value pick minutes from the city center.
Wadamachi pairs a student-friendly shopping street with Yokohama National University uphill, ~10 minutes to Yokohama.
Bandobashi on the Blue Line sits by the lively Yokohamabashi shopping arcade, within walking distance of Kannai — central Yokohama convenience at a shitamachi price.
Yoshinocho is three subway stops from Kannai with the Yokohamabashi arcade walkable — central Yokohama at Minami-ku prices.
Shin-Sugita links the Negishi Line with the Seaside Line, ~15 minutes to Yokohama, with Keikyu Sugita's shopping street walkable.
Koganecho is a riverside district reborn as an art quarter, minutes from central Yokohama with distinctly low rents.
Tsurumi-Ichiba keeps its old Tokaido-road shops, two stops from Kawasaki at local-station prices.
Kamiooka is southern Yokohama's sub-center: Keikyu limited-express stop, department-store shopping, Blue Line access, ~7 minutes to Yokohama.
Hoshikawa is a Sotetsu express stop ~5 minutes from Yokohama, freshly rebuilt and boosted by the JR through-line.
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*Travel times are estimates based on local trains (plus ~6 min per transfer). Express services are often faster.
*Rents are market estimates based on SUUMO listings and vary by season and property. Station data: ©ekidata.jp