Best time to call
Tokyo is 4 hours ahead of Delhi. Here are the call windows that respect both your day in Delhi (India) and theirs in Tokyo (Japan), plus the daylight saving and holiday traps to watch.
9 AM Delhi
= 1 PM Tokyo
9 AM in Delhi = 1 PM in Tokyo, right around their lunch, so confirm they are at a desk.
10 AM Delhi
= 2 PM Tokyo
10 AM in Delhi = 2 PM in Tokyo, after their lunch and before the late-afternoon slump.
11 AM Delhi
= 3 PM Tokyo
11 AM in Delhi = 3 PM in Tokyo, after their lunch and before the late-afternoon slump.
Both cities are loaded with Delhi as the anchor. Adjust the day or hours to see the overlap shift, including around daylight saving transitions.
Sorted by participants in business hours
Green = inside 9:00–17:00
Tokyo is 4 hours ahead of Delhi. From your desk in Delhi, that means your morning is already their afternoon, and the window where both teams are at their desks is narrower than it looks. The cleanest single slot is 9 AM your time, which lands at 1 PM in Tokyo.
At 4 hours apart, you have a generous shared working day. Most of your morning lines up with most of theirs, so the choice is less about finding any overlap and more about hitting the callee's best energy. Aim for their mid-morning rather than their lunch or their wind-down.
The recommended slots above are computed against today's offset, which is the safe default. The trap is the twice-a-year daylight saving changeover: Delhi and Tokyo do not necessarily move their clocks on the same weekend, so for a few weeks each spring and autumn the gap can shift by an hour and every recurring invite quietly misfires. If your call is near a transition date, confirm the exact wall-clock time on both ends rather than trusting the difference.