Tokyo through 250 million years

Tokyo lay at 30° north, the latitude of Ningbo today.

The first dinosaurs

Tokyo lay at 41° north, the latitude of Tirana today.

Farthest north.

Tokyo lay at 54° north.

The great extinction

Tokyo lay at 46° north, the latitude of Ljubljana today.

Homo sapiens

Tokyo lay at 36° north, its latitude today.

Tokyo today.

36° north. In 250 million years the plates have carried it some 11,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 30° north; 250 million years ago
Farthest south: 30° north; 250 million years ago
Farthest north: 54° north; 160 million years ago
Distance travelled: 11,000 kilometres; 250 million years

other places

Positions come from the plate model of Merdith and colleagues (2021), through the GPlates Web Service of the EarthByte Group at the University of Sydney. The globe shows today's coastlines carried back with their plates, not the shorelines of the time, so it does not say whether a place was land or sea. Cities and their coordinates come from Wikidata.