Musashino University's Musashino Campus is about a 15-minute walk from Tanashi 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.
Musashino University's Musashino campus hosts the Letters and Pharmacy faculties, the Architecture and Design department, and the Entrepreneurship faculty, among others. Since 2021, students have been assigned here from year one for all four years (six for Pharmacy), so there's no mid-course relocation.
The real favorite is Tanashi Station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line — about a 15-minute walk or 5-minute bus ride — where studio rents run in the upper ¥50,000s. Neighboring Seibu-Yagisawa is slightly cheaper, while Musashisakai on the JR Chuo Line costs more, around the ¥70,000s, but wins students over with its Chuo Line access. The campus sits in a calm residential part of Nishitokyo City.
The ranking below is dominated by distant, cheaper Seibu Line stations such as Higashi-Yamatoshi, Seibuen, and Akitsu — none of the real favorites (Tanashi, Seibu-Yagisawa, Musashisakai) appears on it. Use the Tanashi rent level as your baseline, and treat the ranking as a list of further-out options for trimming rent.
Higashi-Yamatoshi is marked by the BIG BOX leisure complex and the leafy Tamagawa-josui greenway, with one-seat Seibu rides toward Takadanobaba.
Seibuen terminates beside its namesake amusement park and Lake Tama — leisure-belt living with Shinjuku Line access via Higashi-Murayama.
Shimo-Igusa is a quiet Seibu Shinjuku Line local stop, ~15 minutes to Takadanobaba, with Asagaya and Ogikubo in cycling range.
Iogi is a quiet Seibu Shinjuku Line local stop in Suginami, under 20 minutes to Takadanobaba — an affordable pocket of a pricey ward.
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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