The sun rose early this morning. Maybe I just went to bed too late.

The entire country is one time zone—pretty impressive for a land that spans 20 degrees of longitude. That’s about the same as New York to St. Louis.

Hokkaido has it worst. Not only are they at the eastern edge of Japan, but they’re pretty far north, too. The sun rose there at 5:43 this morning and they’ll see sunset at 4:15 this afternoon. On the other side of Japan, Okinawa’s day started almost an hour later at 6:34.

Tokyo saw the sun at 5:56. Our daylight ends just before 5 this evening.

Tonight, knowing that the sun rises at six, I will go to bed earlier. 10 pm would give me eight hours of darkness.

(You can find out what time your sun rises at Heavens-Above) Posted by kuri at October 27, 2000 08:24 AM