List of fictional locations in the Godzilla films

This is a list of fictional Earth locations depicted in films of and tied in with the Godzilla series. Like most fictional universes, the world of the Godzilla films has been enriched by fictional locales ranging from small Pacific Islands to galactically distant nebulae.

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 Izu Islands, 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. Paleontologist Kyohei Yamane elected to name it "Gojira" after the legend.

The Polynesian Infant Island, first introduced in Mothra, was the site of Rolisican nuclear tests prior to 1961, when the Kinu maru ran aground on the island leaving four survivors. These men reported an encounter with natives on the (presumed uninhabited) island who drank an unknown juice to prevent radiation poisoning. The island was later discovered to be home to two minuscule priestesses called the Shobijin and a giant egg, worshiped and called "Mothra" by the natives. Mothra would eventually hatch into a giant caterpillar, metamorphose into a giant moth, and continue this cycle through several subsequent films. The island is mentioned in the 2003 kaiju film sequel, Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. and seen in the 1992 kaiju film, Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth, which is not a sequel.

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