Japan

The country calling code for Japan is +81. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Japan number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Japan is assigned JP as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and JPN as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Japan is .jp. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Japan is the Japanese yen, with the ISO 4217 code JPY and the symbol ¥. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Japan are quoted in JPY. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Japan is +09:00, currently UTC+09:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Japan is Tokyo. Japan sits in Asia, specifically the Eastern Asia subregion. Its approximate centre point is 36.00000000, 138.00000000. Traffic in Japan drives on the left. Languages recorded for Japan: Japanese.

No land borders are recorded for Japan in this dataset, which is typical of island states and territories. The nearby page still ranks the closest countries by straight-line distance.