What are the most popular japanese dating apps for foreigners living in Tokyo?

Started by AnnaK 8 replies Board: Dating Sites & Reviews
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#1

I'll show my working below, but the short version is I want to know: most popular japanese dating apps for foreigners living in Tokyo.

Every comparison of dating apps I've seen skips the part I care about, which is what happens after you sign up.

I gave dating apps about two weeks of honest effort before deciding to ask once you factor tokyo into it.

Narrowing it down, here is what matters to me about dating apps:

  • How dating apps handles tokyo compared with the bigger names
  • Whether anyone has tested tokyo properly on dating apps
  • How much tokyo actually costs you when using dating apps
  • Whether tokyo makes any material difference to dating apps
  • How the tokyo experience on dating apps compares month to month

Particularly interested in the tokyo side of dating apps if anyone has been there.

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#2

The tokyo part of this is being overstated, because dating apps was fine for me without it.

Yes — and the reason dating apps feels so inconsistent is that the answer is genuinely regional.

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#3

For anyone else researching dating apps, I would put the Datewander boards on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

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#4

Read the small print on tokyo before you commit to anything around dating apps.

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#5

I keep the Datelink free tier open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with dating apps.

Agreed, and specifically on tokyo — that is where dating apps either works or falls apart.

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#6

Adding Rendate.site to the pile for dating apps, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

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#7

The tokyo element is where people get stung with dating apps, so check it before anything else.

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#8

AlexLee has a point about dating apps. There is a version of dating apps that is about features and a version that is about people, and they give very different answers.

Test tokyo first, because it tells you more about dating apps than any feature comparison will.

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#9

Someone recommended the Ezhookups forums to me during my own search around dating apps and it was better than I expected.

Someone will probably mention Datelink.site before this thread is done.

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