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The story
Around October 5th, a giant advertisement for the new “Gogo no Kocha” (Afternoon Tea) CM featuring Snow Man’s Meguro Ren appeared inside the ticket gates at the Hachiko exit of Shibuya Station, serving the Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line and Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line. Fans rushed in to photograph it, and when one poster revealed on social media that they “told a big lie to get the gate staff to erase their entry record and let them out,” criticism spread that this amounted to illegal gate entry. On 5ch threads, discussion ranged from questioning why the poster bragged about it so proudly, to corrections over misunderstandings about IC card entry rules, to a broader debate about Meguro Ren’s standing as an actor and his future career direction.
10/9/2026
Around October 5th, a giant advertisement for the “Gogo no Kocha” (Afternoon Tea) CM featuring Snow Man’s Meguro Ren went up inside the ticket gates at Shibuya Station’s Hachiko exit (Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line / Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line), drawing crowds of fans.
The ad is for the newly released “Gogo no Kocha TEA LATTE with ESPRESSO / CREAM & MILK,” which hit shelves on October 6th, and features a photo of Meguro wearing a beret as the key visual.
Source: jprime.jp / Original article here
What people said
That's only a thing on some Kansai railways, isn't it?
No way, that's not right
Oh hey, a Hankyu Line local
don't go blabbing about it lol
There's a CM running right now where he's like 'I'm in Vancouver and nobody here knows who I am' lol
He probably wants to be recognized as an actor
The idol business only has maybe 10 more years left in it at most, so if he's thinking about his future, staying tied down to an idol group doesn't really add up either
There's gotta be something that looks better on him
Background and Key Points of This Topic
If the post is true — that the person explained their situation to a station attendant inside the gate, had their entry record erased, and then passed through — this isn’t just a minor etiquette slip inside the station; it could amount to fraudulently sidestepping the proper fare process. The claim raised in the thread that “with an IC card, exiting within 30 minutes of entry is free” actually only applies to certain private railways in the Kansai region and doesn’t apply to the Tokyu and Tokyo Metro lines that serve Shibuya Station — another user stepped in to correct this. It’s an easy misunderstanding for readers to fall into as well. In the latter half of the thread, the discussion also drifted into topics separate from the ad and the illegal entry itself, such as assessments of Meguro Ren’s acting career and his future as an idol — this mix of criticism over the incident and commentary on the celebrity himself is a notable feature of the thread.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “[Snow Man] Meguro Ren fans draw backlash for illegal station entry after “telling a big lie to get their entry record erased” to photograph giant station ad [Ailuropoda melanoleuca★]“.
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