Reitaku University is about a 13-minute walk from Minamikashiwa 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.
Reitaku University gathers all its faculties on a single campus in Kashiwa City, Chiba, with no relocation across the years. The 2024 addition of Business Administration and Engineering faculties brought the lineup to five, but everyone still commutes to the same place.
The real favorites are Minami-Kashiwa Station (JR Joban Line) and Shin-Kashiwa Station (Tobu Noda Line), both about a 15-minute walk from campus. Student word-of-mouth also points to the Hikarigaoka area — a leafy, quiet district about 10 minutes by bus from Minami-Kashiwa — and the area around Kashiwa Station, a lively hub where the Joban and Tobu lines meet, with plenty of shopping. The choice tends to come down to calm Minami-Kashiwa versus bustling Kashiwa.
The ranking below is dominated by distant, cheaper stations such as Sakasai, Kohoku, and Unga — neither Minami-Kashiwa nor Shin-Kashiwa, the real favorites, appears on it. Use the rent level around those two stations as your baseline, and treat the ranking as a tool for finding cheaper options further out.
Sakasai is a calm Noda Line suburb under 10 minutes from Kashiwa's shopping — Kashiwa life, minus the price.
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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