To allow cash to be easily transferred among users, a cash handling apparatus includes: a receiving unit that accepts, from a payer who pays a recipient in cash, payment information including payer information for identifying the payer, recipient information for identifying the recipient, and a payment amount to be paid by the payer to the recipient; a cash handling unit that performs a depositing process of recognizing and counting cash deposited by the payer to obtain a deposit amount and to store therein the deposited cash; and a memory that stores transfer information in which the payment information and the deposit amount are registered, wherein the receiving unit accepts, from the recipient, the recipient information, and the cash handling apparatus refers to the transfer information to identify a payment amount corresponding to the recipient information, and dispenses cash corresponding to the payment amount using the cash handling unit.