Heure Actuelle à Chiyoda, Japon — JST.

Chiyoda , officially known as Chiyoda City in English, is a special ward of Tokyo, Japan. Located in the heart of Tokyo's 23 special wards, Chiyoda consists of the Imperial Palace and a surrounding radius of about a kilometer, and is known as the political and financial center of Japan. As of October 2020, the ward has a population of 66,680, and a population density of 5,709 people per km2, making it by far the least populated of the special wards. The residential part of Chiyoda is at the heart of Yamanote, Tokyo's traditional upper-class residential area, with Banchō, Kōjimachi, and Kioichō considered the most exclusive neighbourhoods in the entire city. The total area is 11.66 km2, of which the Imperial Palace, Hibiya Park, National Museum of Modern Art, and Yasukuni Shrine take up approximately 2.6 km2, or 22%.

Distance-wise, Chiyoda is closest to Tokyo (~9 km), Singapore (~5,319 km), Sydney (~7,825 km); São Paulo is the far end at roughly 18,532 km. That ordering matters more than the timezone label for travel planning.

Chiyoda sits inside Japon — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital Tokyo, languages Japanese, currency JPY (¥).

Around Chiyoda, the nearest mapped reference cities are Akasaka (2 km), Akihabara (3 km), Chūō (3 km), Minato City (3 km); treat them as the de-facto regional cluster for JST planning.

Upcoming country holiday signals around Chiyoda: Shōwa Day, Constitution Memorial Day, Greenery Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Japon.

Closest curated airport references from Chiyoda: HND Tokyo (15 km), NRT Narita (58 km), KIJ Niigata (259 km).

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