Tokyo Bay from space: 1987 to 2026
Odaiba, Haneda's new runways and the bay shoreline filled in. Drag the handle to compare 1987 (Landsat) with 2026 (Sentinel-2).
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Explore Tokyo Bay in the satellite tool → Every year since 1987, radar, temperature, change maps and more.
Land cover around the centre
1987-05-21
- Dense vegetation1%
- Healthy vegetation13%
- Sparse vegetation43%
- Bare ground19%
- Water / built-up24%
2026-11-12
- Dense vegetation1%
- Healthy vegetation3%
- Sparse vegetation5%
- Bare ground10%
- Water / built-up82%
Plant-health classes (NDVI) over roughly 10 km around the centre, clouds removed. Landsat and Sentinel-2 differ slightly in resolution; read the shares as a trend, not a survey.
How to read it
The left image is a Landsat scene from 1987-05-21, 30 metres per pixel. The right is a Sentinel-2 scene from 2026-11-12, 10 metres per pixel. Both are true colour: what a person would see from orbit. Sand is pale, water dark, vegetation green, cities grey.
In the satellite tool you can step through every year in between, switch to plant health, water, burn or surface temperature, draw an area to measure what changed, and watch the place for new passes.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 · Landsat courtesy USGS · via Microsoft Planetary Computer.