Oto Island

Odo Island, also spelled Ohto Island, is a fictional location featured in the Showa series of Godzilla films. It is a pivotal location seen in the original 1954 film Gojira. Scenes of Odo Island were also edited into the 1956 quasi-remake Godzilla, King of the Monsters. The 1985 movie Godzilla: 1985 includes archival footage of Odo Island from Gojira in flashback scenes.

History
Odo Island is a southern Japanese fishing village. It is from where the monster Godzilla receives his namesake. This island, probably part of the Bonin group, is featured in the original Gojira. 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.