Meiji Gakuin University's Shirokane Campus is about a 7-minute walk from Shiroganedai 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.
At Meiji Gakuin University, most students in the Faculty of Letters, Law, Psychology, Economics, and Sociology spend their first two years at the Yokohama campus before moving to Shirokane in year three (only the Faculty of International Studies and Faculty of Mathematical Sciences stay in Yokohama all four years). The real favorites near the Shirokane campus are Shirokanedai, Shirokane-Takanawa, and Takanawadai stations, all a 7-8 minute walk away, in a quiet residential pocket of Minato Ward.
The ranking below centers on cheap, far-out stations along the Tokyu Ikegami and Oimachi lines, on an entirely different set of lines from Shirokanedai, Shirokane-Takanawa, and Takanawadai — not a single station overlaps. If you're planning ahead for the move in year three, it makes more sense to focus on those three campus-adjacent stations than on the ranking below.
Behind Senso-ji's crowds, Asakusa keeps real shitamachi life — three lines, minutes to Ueno and Nihombashi, and more affordable than its fame suggests.
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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