diff --git a/libsolidity/ast/ASTJsonConverter.cpp b/libsolidity/ast/ASTJsonConverter.cpp
index cdf70cf9a..1de2e8019 100644
--- a/libsolidity/ast/ASTJsonConverter.cpp
+++ b/libsolidity/ast/ASTJsonConverter.cpp
@@ -704,13 +704,12 @@ bool ASTJsonConverter::visit(ElementaryTypeNameExpression const& _node)
 
 bool ASTJsonConverter::visit(Literal const& _node)
 {
-	char const* tokenString = Token::toString(_node.token());
 	Json::Value value{_node.value()};
 	if (!dev::validateUTF8(_node.value()))
 		value = Json::nullValue;
 	Token::Value subdenomination = Token::Value(_node.subDenomination());
 	std::vector<pair<string, Json::Value>> attributes = {
-		make_pair("token", tokenString ? tokenString : Json::Value()),
+		make_pair(m_legacy ? "token" : "kind", literalTokenKind(_node.token())),
 		make_pair("value", value),
 		make_pair(m_legacy ? "hexvalue" : "hexValue", toHex(_node.value())),
 		make_pair(
@@ -793,6 +792,22 @@ string ASTJsonConverter::functionCallKind(FunctionCallKind _kind)
 	}
 }
 
+string ASTJsonConverter::literalTokenKind(Token::Value _token)
+{
+	switch (_token)
+	{
+	case dev::solidity::Token::Number:
+		return "number";
+	case dev::solidity::Token::StringLiteral:
+		return "string";
+	case dev::solidity::Token::TrueLiteral:
+	case dev::solidity::Token::FalseLiteral:
+		return "bool";
+	default:
+		BOOST_THROW_EXCEPTION(InternalCompilerError() << errinfo_comment("Unknown kind of literal token."));
+	}
+}
+
 string ASTJsonConverter::type(Expression const& _expression)
 {
 	return _expression.annotation().type ? _expression.annotation().type->toString() : "Unknown";
diff --git a/libsolidity/ast/ASTJsonConverter.h b/libsolidity/ast/ASTJsonConverter.h
index 5ee405366..c2de5c482 100644
--- a/libsolidity/ast/ASTJsonConverter.h
+++ b/libsolidity/ast/ASTJsonConverter.h
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ private:
 	std::string location(VariableDeclaration::Location _location);
 	std::string contractKind(ContractDefinition::ContractKind _kind);
 	std::string functionCallKind(FunctionCallKind _kind);
+	std::string literalTokenKind(Token::Value _token);
 	std::string type(Expression const& _expression);
 	std::string type(VariableDeclaration const& _varDecl);
 	int nodeId(ASTNode const& _node)
diff --git a/test/libsolidity/ASTJSON.cpp b/test/libsolidity/ASTJSON.cpp
index 8a7903471..df7fac512 100644
--- a/test/libsolidity/ASTJSON.cpp
+++ b/test/libsolidity/ASTJSON.cpp
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(non_utf8)
 	Json::Value literal = astJson["children"][0]["children"][0]["children"][2]["children"][0]["children"][1];
 	BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(literal["name"], "Literal");
 	BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(literal["attributes"]["hexvalue"], "ff");
-	BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(literal["attributes"]["token"], Json::nullValue);
+	BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(literal["attributes"]["token"], "string");
 	BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(literal["attributes"]["value"], Json::nullValue);
 	BOOST_CHECK(literal["attributes"]["type"].asString().find("invalid") != string::npos);
 }