Matchmaking Service solo-kon Launches for Living-Apart-Together Couples
The service treats marriage without cohabitation as a mainstream option, and the company's survey data shows a majority of Tokyo singles in their 30s and 40s are open to it.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Try Ace launched solo-kon on September 1, 2026, a web matchmaking service for singles who want living-apart-together or weekend marriage. A survey of 208 Tokyo residents in their 30s and 40s found 76.4 percent positive toward these arrangements, and 38.0 percent chose near-distance or complete living apart as their ideal marriage style. The company cites a reference estimate of about 600,000 potential users in Tokyo.
Beyond the headline numbers, the survey found 82.2 percent of respondents sympathize with wanting to marry but feeling anxious about cohabitation, and 95.2 percent want to keep their own time and space after marriage. The company states its goal is not to recommend against cohabitation but to expand the options for how to marry, giving people who avoided marriage because the standard form did not fit a new choice. Try Ace calls solo-kon Japan's first web matchmaking service focused on living-apart-together, based on its own research as of August 21, 2026. The roughly 600,000 figure is a reference estimate combining the 2020 census with the survey, not a count of intended users.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.