What is the time zone of Japan?
Japan is in the Japan Standard Time zone. All places including the capital Tokyo have the same time, there are no exceptions. The country is not observing daylight savings so the clock is the same all year round.
- Japan Standard Time (JST):+9:00 UTC (ahead)
Time of neighboring countries
These are the times differences if you travel outside of Japan.
To South Korea: You will enter the Korea Standard Time zone, but there is no time difference
To China: You will enter the China Standard Time zone, which is -1 hour behind
To Taiwan: You will enter the China Standard Time zone, which is -1 hour behind
To Russia: You will enter the Vladivostok Time zone, which is +1 hour ahead
Japan Daylight Savings Time (DST)
There is no daylight savings time.
Other countries in Asia
You can check out information and maps of other Asian countries by clicking below links.
| +4.00 UTC | +4.30 UTC | +5.00 UTC | +5.30 UTC | +5.45 UTC | +6.00 UTC |
| Armenia | Afghanistan | Kazakhstan * | India | Nepal | Bangladesh |
| Azerbaijan | Maldives | Sri Lanka | Bhutan | ||
| Georgia | Pakistan | Kazakhstan * | |||
| Tajikistan | Kyrgyzstan | ||||
| Turkmenistan | |||||
| Uzbekistan | |||||
| +6.30 UTC | +7.00 UTC | +8.00 UTC | +9.00 UTC | +10.00 UTC | |
| Myanmar | Cambodia | Brunei | East Timor | Papua New Guinea | |
| Indonesia * | China | Indonesia * | |||
| Laos | Hong Kong | Japan | |||
| Mongolia * | Indonesia * | North Korea | |||
| Thailand | Macau | South Korea | |||
| Vietnam | Malaysia | ||||
| Mongolia * | |||||
| Philippines | |||||
| Singapore | |||||
| = multiple time zones | Taiwan |