What Time Is It In Tokyo/Japan Now: Time Zone, Time Difference and Clock

Rosemary May 20, 2024 | 08:48

From Hokkaido to Okinawa in the south, all of Japan is in the same time zone. What time is it in Japan and Tokyo now?

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Japan Standard Time Is there two time zones in Tokyo? Tokyo time zone Time Zone Universal Time CoordinatedGMT / UTC Japan's Daylight Saving Time Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Tokyo Time Difference from Tokyo and Other Cities What time is it in Japan with relation to other countries?

Tokyo, often known as Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital and most populous city of Japan. It is one of the country's 47 prefectures. The world's most populous metropolitan area is the Greater Tokyo Area. Both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan have their residence there. Tokyo, which encompasses the Izu and Ogasawara Islands, is located in the Kantō area on the southeast coast of Honshu, the main island.

Known as Edo at the time, the city has served as the de facto seat of government ever since Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu established it as his headquarters in 1603. After Emperor Meiji relocated his court from Kyoto, the former capital, to the city in 1868, Edo was renamed Tokyo, and the city formally became the capital. Tokyo Prefecture and the city of Tokyo merged to become Tokyo Metropolis in 1943.

What Time Is It In Tokyo/Japan Now: Time Zone, Time Difference and Clock

What Time Is It In Tokyo: Time Zone, Time Difference and Clock

Japan Standard Time

Japan's standard time zone is called Japan Standard Time (JST) or Japan Central Standard Time (JCST), and it is nine hours ahead of UTC (UTC+09:00). Although the implementation of daylight saving time has been discussed on multiple occasions, Japan does not observe it. Tokyo Standard Time was the term used to refer to this time zone during World War II.

The following time zones are equivalent to Japan Standard Time: Korean Standard Time, Yakutsk Time (Russia), Eastern Indonesia Standard Time, East-Timorese Standard Time, and Pyongyang Time (North Korea).

Is there two time zones in Tokyo?

From Hokkaido to Okinawa in the south, all of Japan is in the same time zone. Japan is located in the "Japan Standard Time" (JST) time zone, which is nine hours ahead of Greenwich Time.

Tokyo time zone

Time Zone	Asia/Tokyo
Universal Time CoordinatedGMT / UTC	UTC+9

Japan's Daylight Saving Time

There is no daylight saving time in Japan. In Japan, there are also no time differences. From Hokkaido to Okinawa, the entire Japanese archipelago is always in the same time zone.

Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Tokyo

• Sunrise: 04:31

• Sunset: 18:45

• Day length: 14h 14m

• Solar noon: 11:38

• The current local time in Tokyo is 22 minutes behind apparent solar time.

Time Difference from Tokyo and Other Cities

Los Angeles −16 hours

Chicago −14 hours

New York −13 hours

Toronto −13 hours

São Paulo −12 hours

UTC −9 hours

Lagos −8 hours

London −8 hours

Johannesburg −7 hours

Paris −7 hours

Zurich −7 hours

Cairo −6 hours

Istanbul −6 hours

Moscow −6 hours

Dubai −5 hours

Mumbai −3.5 hours

Hong Kong −1 hours

Shanghai −1 hours

Singapore −1 hours

Sydney +1 hours

What time is it in Japan with relation to other countries?

Daylight saving time was implemented in Japan under the post-war American occupation, but farmers' strong opposition forced its removal in 1952, the year Japan regained full sovereignty.

Japan is still one of the few developed countries that does not observe daylight saving time, despite efforts by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) to bring it back in an effort to lower the country's energy consumption.

However, farmers and the Ministry of Education, which was worried that longer summer evenings would negatively impact schoolchildren's homework, have resisted the idea. After the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011, the topic was discussed once more and rejected.