Tokyo time
Tokyo, Japan
About time in Tokyo
Use this Tokyo clock to follow Japan time for work, study, gaming, and live events.
Tokyo uses Japan Standard Time (UTC+9) throughout the year. This page formats the live display with the IANA timezone Asia/Tokyo.
Japan does not observe daylight saving time.
It is useful for calls that bridge East Asia, Australia, and North America. Check the live date as well as the hour when locations may be on different calendar days.
Working across timezones
Tokyo’s working day overlaps closely with Seoul and much of East and Southeast Asia. Sydney can be one or two hours ahead depending on the season, while Europe and North America usually require an early or late handoff. Confirm both dates before a live trans-Pacific event.
Tokyo remains on UTC+9 year-round. Its difference from Seoul is stable, but gaps to Sydney, Auckland, Los Angeles, New York, and European cities shift when those locations apply seasonal clock changes.
Tokyo: Quiet Details Inside a Vast Metropolis
Tokyo is vast, but it often feels surprisingly local. Each railway station opens onto a different neighborhood of small restaurants, shopping streets, offices, homes, parks, shrines, schools, or creative spaces. The city developed from Edo into Japan’s capital, carrying older traditions into a highly modern urban landscape. Careful service, seasonal food, design, fashion, technology, and popular culture are easy to notice, yet quieter details—morning bicycles, pocket gardens, riverside walks, and familiar neighborhood shops—often leave the strongest impression.
Business-hours examples are orientation for ordinary weekday coordination, not a promise that a person, office, market, school, or public service will be available. Local holidays, flexible schedules, religious observances, remote-work policies, and individual routines can all change the useful overlap, so confirm the participants’ availability before fixing an important event.
Timezone rules are maintained outside this site and can change through government decisions or browser timezone-data updates. Timer on Screen formats the selected IANA timezone with the data available in the current browser. For travel, broadcasts, deadlines, or other consequential plans, verify the final date and time with the organizer or another authoritative source.