A Japanese airport has announced it will install the “world’s largest” indoor Godzilla statue designed to greet arriving passengers and see off those departing.
The installation is set to appear inside Terminal 3 of Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan, from December, according to an announcement made on 23rd October.
The enormous sculpture, measuring around 40 metres (131 feet) in length and nine metres (29 feet) in height, will be positioned in the third-floor departure lobby, one level above the customs area for arriving passengers.
The design features the creature’s blue-glowing spinal spikes, resembling its appearance in the 2023 Japanese film Godzilla Minus One.
A smaller statue, explicitly based on the same film design, will be installed in the second-floor arrivals lobby.
Above the arrivals information desk, graphics will depict other famous monsters from Japanese cinema history.
Collectively named the Haneda Godzilla Global Project, the installation is a collaboration between Toho Co., Ltd., Japan Airport Terminal Co., Ltd., and Tokyo International Air Terminal Corporation.
Organisers said the project’s theme is for Godzilla to greet all visitors arriving in Japan and to bid farewell to those departing.
Godzilla first appeared in the 1954 film Gojira, produced by Toho, as a metaphor for nuclear destruction in the aftermath of World War II.
Over the following decades, the monster evolved into a global pop culture icon, appearing in more than 30 films, television series, comics and games, and becoming one of Japan’s most recognisable cultural exports.
The Godzilla monuments at Haneda are currently scheduled to remain in place for one year.
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