Current time in Tokyo, Japan
The current local time in Tokyo is shown below. Tokyo 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?
What are the timezone facts?
What's the timezone history of Tokyo?
Japan uses a single timezone across the entire archipelago, despite spanning roughly 3,000 kilometres from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the south. The country adopted UTC+9 in 1888 and has not changed it since, briefly using daylight saving during the post-war American occupation before abolishing it in 1951. Policy debate around reintroducing summer time recurs every decade or so but no proposal has reached law.
What are the working hours in Tokyo?
Standard Tokyo working hours run from 09:00 to 18:00, though longer days remain common at larger corporations and overtime expectations tend to be higher than in most Western economies. Lunch is typically short, around 45 minutes between noon and 13:00, and the period is rarely interrupted for meetings. Public holidays cluster in early May (Golden Week), mid-August (Obon), and around the New Year, when many offices close for several consecutive days.
Where is Tokyo?
Tokyo sits at the head of Tokyo Bay on the eastern coast of Honshu, the largest of the four main Japanese islands. As the seat of national government and the heart of the Greater Tokyo Area, it anchors a metropolitan region of around 37 million residents. The city itself covers 23 special wards, with Yokohama, Kawasaki, and Saitama bordering it as part of the same continuous urban expanse.