Tokyo is the capital of Japan. Japan is a very distant country from Greenwich(The central reference zone of time for the whole world) and has a time difference of +9 hours with GMT/UTC time. Japan falls in a time zone called JST (Japan Standard Time). Japan is not distributed into different time zones and JST (Japan Standard Time) is used as the standard time in its capital Tokyo as well as all across the country. The time offset of JST is UTC/GMT + 9 hours.
This page brings a clock for JST ( standard time of Tokyo/ Japan), the time zone of Tokyo/Japan, its time offset and the difference between UTC/ GMT.
| Country: | Japan |
| Time zone abbreviation: | JST |
| Time zone name: | Japan Standard Time |
| Time offset: | UTC/GMT+09:00 |
| Observe DST: | No |
Japan is situated in the region known as Japan Standard Time JST (Ri Ben Biao Zhun Shi, Nihon hyojunji) as well as is situated within the timezone UTC, or GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) + 9 hours. As the Archipelago extends in a north-east-south-west direction over a small latitude and longitude on the earth, the entire country is in the same time zone.