Heure Actuelle à Fukuoka, Japon — JST.

Fukuoka is a designated city in the Kyushu region of Japan and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since ancient times. The area has long been considered the gateway to the country, as it is the nearest point among Japan's main islands to the Asian mainland. Although humans have occupied the area since the Jomon period, some of the earliest settlers of the Yayoi period arrived in the Fukuoka area. The city rose to prominence during the Yamato period, and because of the cross-cultural exposure, and relatively great distance from the social and political centers of Kyoto, Osaka, and later, Edo (Tokyo), Fukuoka gained a distinctive local culture and dialect that has persisted to the present day.

From Fukuoka the nearest of our reference hubs are Tokyo (~875 km), Singapore (~4,531 km), Dubai (~7,184 km), while São Paulo sits about 18,861 km away — useful framing when someone needs a feel for whether a meeting is a regional hop or an intercontinental call.

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

Shime (7 km), Sue (8 km), Katanawa (9 km), Ōnojō (9 km) are the nearest cities WorldClockTools indexes around Fukuoka — that's the cluster to use when scheduling spills past the city limits.

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

Closest curated airport references from Fukuoka: FUK Fukuoka (4 km), HSG Saga (51 km), KKJ Kitakyushu (63 km).

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