--- title: Watch: Trans-Pacific Flight From Tokyo to San Francisco in 84 Seconds description: A stunning timelapse of a flight from Tokyo to San Francisco, which usually takes about 9 hours and 35 minutes canonical: https://time.com/2981928/timelapse-flight-tokyo-to-san-francisco/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-14T16:45:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:40.091Z og:title: Watch: A Trans-Pacific Flight From Tokyo to San Francisco in 84 Seconds og:description: Here's the view most passengers don't get to see og:url: https://time.com/2981928/timelapse-flight-tokyo-to-san-francisco/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc1076645188d359/69869ba2f983e77e6b04ecd0/screen-shot-2014-07-14-at-12-27-43-pm.png?branch=production&width=583&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 583 og:image:height: 328 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-07-14 at 12.27.43 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch: A Trans-Pacific Flight From Tokyo to San Francisco in 84 Seconds twitter:description: Here's the view most passengers don't get to see twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc1076645188d359/69869ba2f983e77e6b04ecd0/screen-shot-2014-07-14-at-12-27-43-pm.png?branch=production&width=583&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch: A Trans-Pacific Flight From Tokyo to San Francisco in 84 Seconds by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 14, 2014 4:45 PM UTC  by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 14, 2014 4:45 PM UTC A flight from Tokyo to San Francisco usually takes about 9 hours and 35 minutes, but the video above compiles over 3,400 images to create an 84-second timelapse of the trans-Pacific journey. The video, captured from inside a Boeing 747, shows a stunning dashboard view of the ocean behind layers of clouds. Our favorite part? Seeing the plane speed into the sunrise starting at around 0:43. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2981928/timelapse-flight-tokyo-to-san-francisco/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2981928/timelapse-flight-tokyo-to-san-francisco/"},"headline":"Watch: A Trans-Pacific Flight From Tokyo to San Francisco in 84 Seconds","datePublished":"2014-07-14T16:45:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:40.091Z","description":"Here's the view most passengers don't get to see","url":"https://time.com/2981928/timelapse-flight-tokyo-to-san-francisco/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","San Francisco","Tokyo","flight","plane"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc1076645188d359/69869ba2f983e77e6b04ecd0/screen-shot-2014-07-14-at-12-27-43-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc1076645188d359/69869ba2f983e77e6b04ecd0/screen-shot-2014-07-14-at-12-27-43-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-07-14 at 12.27.43 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2981928/timelapse-flight-tokyo-to-san-francisco/","name":"Watch: A Trans-Pacific Flight From Tokyo to San Francisco in 84 Seconds"}}]}] ```