When can you reach a Japanese car dealer? Japan time, public holidays and the dealer's own hours

If you're writing to or phoning a dealer in Japan from abroad, the first question is simple: what time is it there, and is anyone in? Japan runs on Japan Standard Time, nine hours ahead of UTC. This page shows the time in Japan now, whether today is a Japanese public holiday, and, if you put in the opening hours from the dealer's listing, when those hours fall in your own time.

Every dealer sets its own hours. We don't guess them for you, and nor should anyone else.

The table lists Japan's public holidays for 2026 and 2027, from the Cabinet Office's own list. The English names are ours.

What we found on three dealers' pages

On 4 October 2026 we opened the shop pages of three used car dealers in Aichi on Carsensor, a Japanese used car site. All three had a box for opening hours and a box for the regular closing day. No two said the same thing:

	Opening hours	Regular closing day
Dealer 1	10:00 to 20:00 for the shop, and 00:00 to 23:59 for phone enquiries	None: open every day of the year
Dealer 2	10:00 to 19:00 Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 to 18:00 on Sundays and public holidays	Every Monday
Dealer 3	10:00 to 18:00	Every Monday, and the second Tuesday of each month

Two of the three open on public holidays. One closes two days some weeks. That's why the tool asks for the hours on the listing rather than assuming any.

Where to find the hours on a Japanese listing

On a Japanese dealer's own page, or its page on a site like Carsensor or Goo-net, look for these words:

Japanese	Romanised	English
営業時間	eigyō jikan	Opening hours
定休日	teikyūbi	Regular closing day
年中無休	nenjū mukyū	Open every day of the year
祝日	shukujitsu	Public holiday

Some pages give separate hours for the phone, as dealer 1's does, or different hours at weekends, as dealer 2's does. Read the whole box.

How to use it

1. Choose where you are. The tool uses your device's own clock and time-zone rules, including summer time where you live.
2. Read the time in Japan, and whether today is a public holiday there.
3. Put in the opening hours and the closing day from the listing. The tool shows the next seven days, with those hours in your own time.
4. Plan your email or call for inside those hours. If the listing says nothing, or the dealer doesn't reply, that's an answer of a kind too.

Nothing you put in leaves the page.

If you'd rather not chase a dealer across time zones in Japanese, a Remote Check is where we phone them in Japanese, during their hours, and ask your questions.

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What this page can't tell you

• Any dealer's hours. Only the dealer's own listing, page or answer can.
• Days a dealer closes beyond its regular closing day. The table has Japan's national public holidays only. A dealer can close on other days, or open on a public holiday.
• Whether anyone will pick up. Being inside the hours on the listing doesn't mean the person who knows the car is there.
• Our own reply times. We reply within 2 Japanese business days. How our working day falls in your time is on the contact page.

Written by Yoshiaki Sagara, a paintless dent repair and detailing technician in Japan. He looks at cars for overseas buyers through Ninja Desk Japan. About us

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