Location from Kingdom Hearts by Tetsuya Nomura / Square Enix & Disney
A tropical paradise of warm beaches and eternal sunsets — childhood home of Sora, Riku, and Kairi, and the place where the adventure begins when darkness consumes the world.
Destiny Islands is innocence made geography — a place of wooden swords, racing competitions, and dreams of what lies beyond the horizon. It is where Sora, Riku, and Kairi grew up building rafts and sharing paopu fruit, before the Heartless came and tore their world apart. The Secret Place is the heart of the islands — a hidden cave where children draw on the walls and where a mysterious wooden door hums with power. This door is the Keyhole of the world, and when darkness flooded through it, the islands were consumed. They were later restored, but the memory of that night — the storm, the shadows, the moment Riku reached into the darkness and Sora grasped the Keyblade for the first time — defines everything that follows. Despite the cosmic battles that rage across the universe, Destiny Islands remains the emotional touchstone of the entire series. It is what Sora fights to return to, what Riku longs to protect, and what Kairi waits upon.
Sun-drenched beaches of yellow sand, palm trees swaying in warm ocean breezes, and crystal-clear turquoise water. The small play island features a wooden bridge connecting to a tiny islet with a crooked paopu tree. A seaside shack, treehouse structures, and a hidden cave called the Secret Place lie behind a waterfall, its walls covered in childhood chalk drawings.
Also known as: Destiny Islands, The Islands