Collecting data from 1,200 respondents showed that men spend and average of 6,805 yen on a date, while for women the amount is less than half of that, at 2,612 yen.

Do Japanese split the bill?

Splitting it down the middle does seem quite common in Japan, however, especially among younger couples like university students who arent exactly rolling in money. Known as “warikan“, generally speaking the accepted date etiquette is for the woman to ask the man what her “share” of the bill would be.