Hora Atual em Maruoka, Japão — JST.

Maruoka Castle is a hirayama-style Japanese castle located in the Maruoka neighbourhood of the city of Sakai, Fukui Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. It also called Kasumi-ga-jō due to the legend that whenever an enemy approaches the castle, a thick mist appears and hides it. Built at the end of the Sengoku period, the castle was occupied by a succession of daimyō of Maruoka Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. The site is now a public park noted for its sakura. The castle's relatively small tenshu claims to be the oldest in the country, a claim which is challenged by both Inuyama Castle and Matsumoto Castle.

Distance-wise, Maruoka is closest to Tokyo (~309 km), Singapore (~5,111 km), Dubai (~7,624 km); São Paulo is the far end at roughly 18,586 km. That ordering matters more than the timezone label for travel planning.

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

Around Maruoka, the nearest mapped reference cities are Sakai (7 km), Awara (10 km), Iijima (11 km), Fukui-shi (11 km); treat them as the de-facto regional cluster for JST planning.

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

Closest curated airport references from Maruoka: NGO Tokoname (152 km), ITM Osaka (170 km), UKB Kobe (194 km).

In 2015, A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.