Tokyo session

Tokyo is the largest of the Asian centres and the session where JPY crosses do most of their work. It has a reputation for building the day’s first clean range, which London then either extends or breaks.

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Session	Status	Your time	Countdown
Sydney08:00 – 17:00 Sydney	—	—	—
Tokyo09:00 – 18:00 Tokyo	—	—	—
London08:00 – 17:00 London	—	—	—
New York08:00 – 17:00 New York	—	—	—
London – New York overlapthe busiest window of the day	—	—	—

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When the Tokyo session runs

The Tokyo session is defined by the hours Tokyo keeps: 09:00 to 18:00 local. That never changes. What changes is where those hours land on your clock.

Length, most of the year

9 hours

UTC, northern winter

00:00 – 09:00

UTC, northern summer

00:00 – 09:00

SAST, all year round trip

02:00 / 02:00

What the Tokyo session is like

USD/JPY, AUD/JPY and the other yen crosses are at their most liquid.
The overlap with Sydney in the first hour is the busiest part of the Asian day.
Ranges set here are watched by London traders as the session opens — the Asian high and low are among the most-referenced levels in intraday forex.

What else is open while it runs

Measured on a northern-summer day. The figures shift by an hour when the hemispheres fall out of step, which is exactly why the live clock above is the authority and this table is the summary.
Session	Hours shared	What that means
Sydney	7h	A long overlap: liquidity from both centres, and the deepest book of the day.
London	none	No overlap — these two never trade at the same time.
New York	none	No overlap — these two never trade at the same time.

Tokyo session in every major timezone

A row where the two columns match is a timezone that moves in step with Tokyo — or one where neither moves at all.
Timezone	Northern winter	Northern summer
SAST South Africa	02:00 – 11:00	02:00 – 11:00
GMT Reference time	00:00 – 09:00	00:00 – 09:00
EST / EDT United States	19:00 – 04:00	20:00 – 05:00
IST India	05:30 – 14:30	05:30 – 14:30
GST United Arab Emirates	04:00 – 13:00	04:00 – 13:00
CET / CEST Europe	01:00 – 10:00	02:00 – 11:00
EET / EEST Europe	02:00 – 11:00	03:00 – 12:00
JST Japan	09:00 – 18:00	09:00 – 18:00
AEST / AEDT Australia	11:00 – 20:00	10:00 – 19:00
WAT West Africa	01:00 – 10:00	01:00 – 10:00
EAT East Africa	03:00 – 12:00	03:00 – 12:00
PST / PDT United States	16:00 – 01:00	17:00 – 02:00

The other sessions

Sydney sessionThe week starts here. Thin, slow, and the only game in town for two hours.London sessionThe largest session by volume. Most of the day’s range is built here.New York sessionUS data, US equities, and the close that ends the trading day.London – New York overlapThe hours London and New York are open together — the deepest liquidity of the day.

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