List of fictional locations in the Godzilla films

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Odo Island[edit]

Odo Island (or Ohto Island), a southern Japanese fishing village, is from where the monster Godzilla receives his namesake. This island, probably part of the Bonin group, is featured in the original Godzilla and referenced in a few subsequent films. Gojira was an antiquated legend of the Odo islanders. In "the old days", according to an elder, when the fishing was poor the villagers sacrificed young virgins to appease the sea monster's hunger. When ships began inexplicably sinking off the coast of Odo Island in 1954, the natives performed a purification ceremony, the last remnant of the old traditions, in a village temple. Odo is the first location where the kaiju is known to have come ashore. While its appearance was presumably coincidence, paleontologist Kyohei Yamane elected to name it "Gojira" after the legend.

Infant Island[edit]


Faro Island[edit]

Two species endemic to Faro Island are a medicinal red berry, bartered from island natives by Pacific Pharmaceuticals; and the giant ape King Kong, worshiped by the natives but subdued and captured during an expedition sponsored by Pacific in King Kong vs. Godzilla. The island's natives associate Kong to the frequent lightning on Faro, as Kong is later seen to draw power from lightning. These natives were of a more stereotyped and comical appearance than those of Infant Island, and, in contrast to Infant, the island serves only as an origin for Kong, and is not seen (and only briefly mentioned) for the duration of the film after Kong's capture.

Devil's Island[edit]

The tiny Devil's Island was chosen by the Red Bamboo - a terrorist organization with nuclear ambitions from Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster - as the site for a heavy water factory. Coupled with its obscurity, the island conveniences the Red Bamboo by being home to Ebirah, a mammoth shrimp, which attacks vessels in the surrounding waters, preventing their enslaved Infant Islanders from escaping. The island also turns out to be home to a hibernating Godzilla, which had apparently settled underground after his battles with King Ghidorah. Also sometimes referred to as "Letchi Island" (and not the same as the real-life Devil's Island).

Sollgel Island[edit]



Monsterland/Monster Island[edit]

Lagos Island[edit]



Adona Island[edit]


Birth Island[edit]

After Godzilla and Baby Godzilla swim off to sea at the end of Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II they settle on an uninhabited Pacific island, called Birth Island in the following two films (By the start of Godzilla vs. Destoroyah the island has vanished, as underground uranium deposits on the island caused Godzilla's radioactive energy to go unstable, and destroy the island in the process). In Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla, the island is home not only to Godzilla and Little Godzilla, but also to Akira Yuki, who has devoted his life to killing Godzilla, and to members of the T-Project, whose goal is to control Godzilla via telepathy.





Rolisica is widely interpreted as a stand-in for the United States and the Soviet Union, with New Kirk City—featuring a Manhattan-like skyline, several suspension bridges—obviously standing in for New York City, Soviet styled military uniforms, and its population being clearly of European descent. In the Japanese version, Rolisican characters often speak English with American accents. A significant portion of the film Mothra depicts diplomatic relations between Rolisica and Japan, particularly over two issues: their claim that Infant Island had been searched and verified to be uninhabited before their nuclear tests were conducted; and the Rolisican government's position on Nelson's ownership of the Shobijin.

The country was not mentioned in the two kaiju films Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. and Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla in which are sequels to the Mothra film.


In Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964), Selgina is said to be a small Himalayan monarchy. The country's princess, Salno leaves her homeland to escape to Japan from a group of assassins from an enemy country who are trying to kill her, and conquer Selgina. While she is on a plane, she becomes possessed by the spirit of a Venusian and jumps from the airplane before it explodes. Miraculously, she is later found unharmed.






Mu was based on the real-life alleged lost continent also known as Mu.





The Federation and The Alliance[edit]

Fictional stand ins for the United States/NATO, and the USSR/Warsaw Pact which appear in The Last War (1961). A global nuclear altercation involving the Federation and Alliance destroys the world at the film's climax.



In the 1957 film The Mysterians, it was the home of the aliens was a Mysteroid, however a nuclear war between mysterians destroyed the planet and is now turned the asteroid belt.


In the 1959 film Battle in Outer Space, an alien race known as the Natalians tried to invade the Earth.

Planet X[edit]





Godzilla Prediction Network[edit]

Godzilla Prediction Network is a research center facility for doing scientific studies on Godzilla and other giant monsters. This was featured in the 1999 film, Godzilla 2000.