Current time in Japan
The current local time across Japan is shown below. The country observes JST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Tokyo does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today in Tokyo?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- Asia/Tokyo
- Standard abbreviation
- JST
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country code
- JP
What are the major cities in Japan?
How does Japan handle time?
Japan adopted UTC+9 in 1888 and has held that single offset across the entire archipelago since, despite the country's substantial east-to-west span that produces noticeable solar-time variation between Hokkaido and Okinawa. Daylight saving was briefly imposed during the post-war American occupation from 1948 to 1951 and abolished afterwards on cultural and economic grounds. Periodic policy discussions about reintroducing summer time recur every decade or so but no proposal has reached law. The single-zone arrangement simplifies domestic scheduling considerably.
What are the working hours in Japan?
Standard Japanese working hours run from 09:00 to 18:00, though longer days remain common at larger corporations and overtime expectations are higher than in most Western economies. Lunch is typically taken in a 45-minute window between noon and 13:00 and rarely interrupted for meetings. National public holidays cluster in early May (Golden Week, around 29 April to 5 May), mid-August (the Obon period), and around the New Year, when many businesses close for several consecutive days. ShΕgatsu through 3 January effectively pauses commercial activity.
Where is Japan?
Japan is an archipelago of around 14,000 islands stretching roughly 3,000 kilometres along the eastern edge of Asia, with the four main islands Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku holding the substantial majority of the country's roughly 125 million residents. The land area is comparable to Germany but the population density concentrates heavily along the Pacific coastal corridor between Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka. The country sits between latitudes 24 and 46 degrees north, with subtropical Okinawa and snow-dominated Hokkaido at the extremes.