Current Time in Tokyo, Japan

Name: Tokyo
Address: Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo uses the Asia/Tokyo time zone, with JST (UTC +9:00) during standard time.

Tokyo, Japan — Live Clock

1:53:25 PM

JST · UTC +9:00

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Sunrise

5:25 AM

Sunset

5:50 PM

Day Length

12h 24m

Population

13.9 M

35.6762° N, 139.6503° E · 40 m elevation · September 16, 2026

Tokyo Time Zone

Time Zone

Asia/Tokyo

JST

Standard Time

JST

UTC +9:00

Daylight Time

Not Observed

Year-round standard time

Next DST Change

No DST change

Standard time year-round

This city’s business rhythm

Tokyo — JST year-round, no DST

Tokyo runs on JST (UTC+9) year-round with no DST. Same offset as Osaka, Sapporo, Fukuoka. Also same offset as Seoul (KST). Business hours 9 AM - 6 PM formally but presence culture stretches this to 7-8 PM at large employers. TSE (Tokyo Stock Exchange) trading runs 9 AM - 3 PM JST with a 1-h lunch break. Tokyo is 14 h ahead of New York (winter) / 13 h (summer).

Regional context

Timezones across East Asia

East Asia — China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Mongolia — sits mostly at UTC+8 (China's single-timezone policy across the whole country) or UTC+9 (Japan, Korea). None observe DST anymore (Japan ended its post-WW2 experiment in the 1950s), so offsets are fixed. The region's single-large-zone footprint makes cross-Asia coordination unusually easy compared to Europe or North America.

About Tokyo Time (JST)

Check the current local time in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo uses the Asia/Tokyo time zone (JST, UTC+9) and does not observe daylight saving time. Use this page to see the exact current time in Tokyo and plan calls or meetings across time zones.