Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Kawasaki
Antipode finder · Japan
The antipode of
Kawasaki.
Draw a straight line from Kawasaki (35.52° N, 139.72° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 35.52° S, 40.28° W, in the South Atlantic Ocean, 1,089 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Brazil. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Kawasaki
- 35.52° N, 139.72° E · at about sea level · 1,538,262 people
- Antipode
- 35.52° S, 40.28° W
- What is there
- The South Atlantic Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 4,760 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 1,089 km from the antipode, on the coast of Brazil
- Nearest town
- Balneário Pinhal, Brazil · 1,097 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Porto Alegre · 1,190 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 1,114 km away, 70 km from Kurio, Japan ⇄ near Xangri-lá, Brazil
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Kawasaki?
No, not from Kawasaki itself. The other slice would land in the South Atlantic Ocean, 1,089 km from the nearest dry land (Brazil), where the sea floor lies about 4,760 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 1,114 km from Kawasaki, 70 km from Kurio, Japan. Its other slice would go down 5 km from Xangri-lá, Brazil.
How this was worked out: the antipode flips the latitude and moves the longitude by 180°. Land or sea comes from the OpenStreetMap coastline the map uses; the sandwich verdict and elevations come from the verifier's 0.2° grid (Natural Earth land, ETOPO 2022 relief); water names from Natural Earth; towns and populations from GeoNames. The city's position is GeoNames' point for it; a big city's suburbs spread tens of kilometres around that point, and the figures move with them. Generated 2026-09-29.