A weekly class or club
Pottery, dance, cooking, running, bouldering. Seeing the same faces every week is how most friendships start.
A lot of women who move to Tokyo want female friends first, and would rather not wonder whether a "friend" app is really a dating app. Buy Me a Matcha is the only app built specifically for English speakers to make real friends in Japan: friends-only, English-only, one-on-one over a matcha, and you can choose to meet only women. Here's how that works, and what else helps.
Buy Me a Matcha is a friends-only app for people in Tokyo who speak English. When you set who you'd like to meet to Only women, two things happen: you only see women, and only women see you. You can add an age range on top, so the people you see are roughly your stage of life.
From there it works like the rest of the app. Send a matcha to someone you'd like to meet. If she sends one back, it's a match: you chat, pick a café and a time, and meet one-on-one.
Pottery, dance, cooking, running, bouldering. Seeing the same faces every week is how most friendships start.
Tokyo has community groups and meetups for women, many in English. Go twice before you decide.
A good way to meet Japanese women too. Move it to a café once you click.
One lunch outside the building does more than months of small talk.
Yes. In Buy Me a Matcha you can choose "Only women": you only see women, and only women see you. It is a friends-only app for English speakers in Tokyo.
No. Buy Me a Matcha is for friendship only, and the women-only setting simply means your matches are other women who also want new friends.
No. With "Only women" on, your profile is only shown to women who also have you in their range.
Buy Me a Matcha is the easiest start: set it to Only women and meet one-on-one at a café, in English. Other popular options are weekly classes and clubs, women-focused community groups and events, and language exchanges.
Tokyo is one of the safest big cities in the world. Simple habits help: meet in a busy café in the daytime, keep the first meetup short, and tell a friend where you are.
Buy Me a Matcha shows you people in Tokyo who speak English and also want new friends. Set it to Only women, match, pick a café, and meet one-on-one. Free, and not a dating app.
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