Haneda Airport's 40-Metre Godzilla Is Only Booked Until Late December
The monument stands in the Terminal 3 departure lobby and is scheduled to stay until late December 2026, with a Godzilla Minus One statue downstairs.
On view until late Dec 2026 (planned)
Haneda Airport's Terminal 3 has a Godzilla about 40 metres long and 9 metres tall in its third-floor departure lobby, and it is scheduled to stay only until late December 2026.
Toho, Japan Airport Terminal and Tokyo International Air Terminal Corporation call it the world's largest Godzilla monument for indoor use. It is modelled on the original Godzilla of 1954, was shown at a completion event on 19 December 2025 and went on view the next day. Oricon reports it was 3D-carved from high-density foamed resin, finished with a special coating and water-based paint, and took from September 2023, when design began, to December 2025 to finish. Toho's chief Godzilla officer, Keiji Ota, said the idea goes back to 2019, according to Pia.
Ota's viewing advice, as Pia quotes it, is to look from several angles, including from behind after taking the elevator up, and to hunt for the spot where you can meet Godzilla's eyes.
Downstairs, the second-floor arrival lobby has a colourful scroll-style graphic called Godzilla: The Great Monster Advance Picture Scroll, which Oricon lists as 19 monsters and forms, from Mothra and King Ghidorah to Gigan and Hedorah. A Godzilla Minus One statue about 2 metres tall stands on the same floor.
At the completion event, Tokyo International Air Terminal's president, Masatoshi Akahori, said he asked the airport's stakeholders whether they were happy with the project. He said Keikyu told him Godzilla had flattened its Shinagawa station, and Ota replied that the cities Godzilla crushes are always rebuilt and prosper, Oricon reports.
