About Osaka time
Osaka shares Japan Standard Time with the rest of the country and serves as the commercial heart of the Kansai region.
Osaka’s merchant culture gave rise to the greeting “mōkarimakka?” (“are you making money?”), a nod to its trading roots dating to the Dojima Rice Exchange — arguably the world’s first futures market. Like all of Japan it never changes its clocks, so scheduling with Osaka is stable except when partner cities shift for DST.
Dojima rice-futures heritageKansai business cultureNo daylight saving