diff --git a/presto-main/src/main/java/com/facebook/presto/util/JsonUtil.java b/presto-main/src/main/java/com/facebook/presto/util/JsonUtil.java
index 4b48dcbd8fff..c8948b7c2cf7 100644
--- a/presto-main/src/main/java/com/facebook/presto/util/JsonUtil.java
+++ b/presto-main/src/main/java/com/facebook/presto/util/JsonUtil.java
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 import com.facebook.presto.common.type.TypeSignature;
 import com.facebook.presto.common.type.TypeSignatureParameter;
 import com.facebook.presto.common.type.UnknownType;
+import com.facebook.presto.operator.scalar.JsonFunctions;
 import com.facebook.presto.spi.PrestoException;
 import com.facebook.presto.type.BigintOperators;
 import com.facebook.presto.type.BooleanOperators;
@@ -86,6 +87,7 @@
 import static com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonToken.FIELD_NAME;
 import static com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonToken.START_ARRAY;
 import static com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonToken.START_OBJECT;
+import static com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature.ORDER_MAP_ENTRIES_BY_KEYS;
 import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument;
 import static com.google.common.base.Verify.verify;
 import static it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.HashCommon.arraySize;
@@ -957,7 +959,7 @@ static BlockBuilderAppender createBlockBuilderAppender(Type type)
                 case StandardTypes.JSON:
                     return (parser, blockBuilder, sqlFunctionProperties) -> {
                         String json = OBJECT_MAPPED_UNORDERED.writeValueAsString(parser.readValueAsTree());
-                        JSON.writeSlice(blockBuilder, Slices.utf8Slice(json));
+                        JSON.writeSlice(blockBuilder, JsonFunctions.jsonParse(Slices.utf8Slice(json)));
                     };
                 case StandardTypes.ARRAY:
                     return new ArrayBlockBuilderAppender(createBlockBuilderAppender(((ArrayType) type).getElementType()));
diff --git a/presto-main/src/test/java/com/facebook/presto/type/TestMapOperators.java b/presto-main/src/test/java/com/facebook/presto/type/TestMapOperators.java
index 0690252130ce..00790aa09372 100644
--- a/presto-main/src/test/java/com/facebook/presto/type/TestMapOperators.java
+++ b/presto-main/src/test/java/com/facebook/presto/type/TestMapOperators.java
@@ -527,15 +527,9 @@ public void testJsonToMap()
                         .put("k8", "[null]")
                         .build());
 
-        // These two tests verifies that partial json cast preserves input order
-        // The second test should never happen in real life because valid json in presto requires natural key ordering.
-        // However, it is added to make sure that the order in the first test is not a coincidence.
         assertFunction("CAST(JSON '{\"k1\": {\"1klmnopq\":1, \"2klmnopq\":2, \"3klmnopq\":3, \"4klmnopq\":4, \"5klmnopq\":5, \"6klmnopq\":6, \"7klmnopq\":7}}' AS MAP<VARCHAR, JSON>)",
                 mapType(VARCHAR, JSON),
                 ImmutableMap.of("k1", "{\"1klmnopq\":1,\"2klmnopq\":2,\"3klmnopq\":3,\"4klmnopq\":4,\"5klmnopq\":5,\"6klmnopq\":6,\"7klmnopq\":7}"));
-        assertFunction("CAST(unchecked_to_json('{\"k1\": {\"7klmnopq\":7, \"6klmnopq\":6, \"5klmnopq\":5, \"4klmnopq\":4, \"3klmnopq\":3, \"2klmnopq\":2, \"1klmnopq\":1}}') AS MAP<VARCHAR, JSON>)",
-                mapType(VARCHAR, JSON),
-                ImmutableMap.of("k1", "{\"7klmnopq\":7,\"6klmnopq\":6,\"5klmnopq\":5,\"4klmnopq\":4,\"3klmnopq\":3,\"2klmnopq\":2,\"1klmnopq\":1}"));
 
         // nested array/map
         assertFunction("CAST(JSON '{\"1\": [1, 2], \"2\": [3, null], \"3\": [], \"5\": [null, null], \"8\": null}' AS MAP<BIGINT, ARRAY<BIGINT>>)",