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Kanto High's Mystery
honestly the vending machine thing is prob half true. i went to a different school in Setagaya but we had a similar rumor and it turned out a teacher used to restock a machine with melon pan from a local shop as a treat during exam season. once he retired the story kept going without him. so the machine might exist but whoever's filling it now is a student or nobody. ask the office staff, not the students, they'll actually tell u straight.
Kanto International High is in Setagaya, a short walk from Sangenjaya Station on the Denentoshi line. I've got a friend who taught there and she said the "legendary vending machine" story gets passed around every exchange group, but the actual melon pan people rave about comes from a tiny bakery near the school gate, not a machine. There is a vending machine on campus that sells drinks and sometimes snacks, but the melon pan legend is mostly a running joke seniors use to mess with new students. If you want the real thing, ask a student to point you to the bakery, it's usually sold out by early afternoon so go before lunch.
The melon pan vending machine story has been floating around that school for at least fifteen years, I first heard it from a coworker whose daughter graduated in 2011. What's funny is the machine itself is real, it's tucked behind the gym near the bicycle racks, but it only ever sold canned coffee and Calpis. The melon pan part got attached somewhere along the way and now it's basically folklore. If you actually want good melon pan in Setagaya, try the bakery inside Sangenjaya's covered shopping street, about a five minute walk from the station.
Whitebox in Tokyo 2026: Is It Still Worth It?
yeah the old Whitebox spot got gutted around then, last I walked past it was a startup office on the upper floors. kuramae's decent but honestly Kiyosumi-Shirakawa side is quieter and the rents are still half of Shibuya. miyamasuzaka is basically all towers now.
kuramae's rents crept up too since the tawaman went in, kiyosumi side is still the better bet
whitebox actually closed back in 2018, the space is a gallery-slash-coworking thing now. shibuya's still fine to live in but the rents near miyamasuzaka have jumped hard, more office towers than studios these days. if you want that old creative vibe try kuramae or kiyosumi instead