Best dating apps in Japan

Which apps have a Japan App Store listing

Twenty-five reviewed apps came back with a Japan listing in an iTunes lookup of the store on November 5, 2026. Tinder, Bumble, Feeld, Grindr and Match are among them, and so are the smaller Taimi, Hornet, 3Fun and The League. Seven came back empty: Hinge, Coffee Meets Bagel, eharmony, Zoosk, Fling, OurTime and Doublelist.

The lookup reads the iPhone App Store only. Google Play and web availability by country cannot be checked this way, so a service missing above may still reach Japan through Android or a browser. AdultFriendFinder, BeNaughty and Sniffies are browser-first and have no iPhone app to look up, which leaves their Japan status open; browser-only services have their own page.

Best dating apps in Japan on English-language results

The first Google Japan results page for "best dating apps in japan" holds seven results. Only one is a ranking list, and none sits on a Japanese domain. Tinder and Bumble are each named three times, OkCupid twice, and two of the results are App Store pages while one is a forum page.

The query was run in English, and local-language queries were not run, so Japanese-language lists are outside this count. With a single list and no local domain, the page says little about what people in Japan install. Rankings without a country filter are on the general dating app rankings, and pages for individual cities are under dating apps in single cities. Other markets sit together in countries.

Japan's dating-site regulation act and age confirmation

Japan's 出会い系サイト規制法, the dating-site regulation act, was enacted in 2003 and amended in 2008 to tighten operator rules. The National Police Agency (NPA) says it requires operators of an "Internet opposite-sex introduction business" to notify the authorities, to confirm that users are not children (under 18) and to delete solicitations that entice children. The NPA defines that business by four conditions, one of them public posting on an online bulletin board. Its page on the act lists operator duties under Articles 3, 7 to 14 and 16 and penalties under Articles 31 to 37 without describing them, and it mentions a later amendment that took effect on December 14, 2019 (令和元年法律第37号).

The NPA's page on the enforcement rules says an operator must confirm a user is not a child by one of three methods under Article 5: presentation or transmission of an ID showing age or date of birth, transmission of birth-date data through the My Number Card, or payment by a method children cannot normally use, such as a credit card. Email advertising must state that children may not use the service or display "18禁". The page ties its date to the December 14, 2019 change in the notification attachments; the Article 5 methods carry no separate date.

Both pages define the regulated business by service features, and neither mentions smartphone apps. Whether a given dating app is covered is therefore not stated. No app is named on either page, and no Japanese age check for a named dating app is on record here.

Dating app prices on the Japan App Store

Every price here is an iPhone App Store row for Japan, in JPY, and each app appears at its cheapest listed row. Only some listings state a billing period. The seven apps with no Japan listing have no row.

The lowest listed rows on the Japan App Store are SCRUFF Browsing Pro at JPY 480, Pure App Membership at JPY 550, HUD's row, named Hud一週間プレミアム, at JPY 600 and Bumble Boost at JPY 700, none with a period stated. Badoo Premium, Grindr XTRA, OkCupid A-List and Tinder Plus share one amount, JPY 1,200 on the Japan App Store, again with no period. At the top of the Japan App Store rows, Match is JPY 5,000, Ashley Madison Preferred JPY 3,700 and Plenty of Fish Upgrade JPY 3,500, also without a period.

Three rows do state one. happn's subscription is JPY 1,700 for 1 month on the Japan App Store, DOWN VIP is JPY 2,100 for 1 month, and Feeld's Majestic Membership is JPY 1,650 for 30 days. HER Premium, at JPY 1,500 on the Japan App Store, states no period, so it cannot be set against those three. Google Play and web prices are not covered. Prices for single apps are under subscription prices by app.

Local apps on the Japan App Store

Four of the fifteen apps in the Japan local list are marked local, and they are the four with the most ratings. Pairs, listed as "マッチングアプリ Pairs(ペアーズ) 出会い・恋活・婚活", has 444,724 ratings on its Japan listing. The listing of with, "マッチングアプリ with(ウィズ) -出会い", has 294,673, Tapple's "マッチングアプリ タップル" has 267,134, and Omiai's "マッチングアプリはOmiai｜婚活・出会い・マッチング・恋活" has 225,256.

The other eleven are marked international. The highest count among them is 14,815 for Casual Dating & Flirt - Kasual, followed by 3,730 for Bumpy - International Dating, 242 for Instinct: Casual Dating App and 94 for Flava: Casual Dating & Chat; seven show no count. A rating count is a number of ratings left on one listing, not a number of users, and the counts for Tinder, Bumble and the other reviewed apps are not part of this list, so the gap between local and international holds only inside it.

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