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List of airports in Japan
In Japan, airports are grouped into three legal classifications.
According to the Airport Development Law (空港整備法), the government pays any budget for building airports and maintains them. However, passenger terminals are generally given to private corporate operators.
In 2001, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, which receives 20% of the public-works construction budget, commenced a scheme to build airfields predominantly for airlifting vegetables. Kasaoka Airfield was one of nine airfields constructed; however it was later determined that flying vegetables to Okayama City from Kasaoka took just as long due to loading and unloading, and cost approximately six times as much as road transport.
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First class airports
These can handle intercontinental flights. There are currently four, with a fifth under construction (Chubu International Airport in Aichi prefecture).
- Kansai International Airport, Osaka prefecture (IATA airport code:KIX)
- Narita International Airport, Narita, Chiba prefecture (NRT)
- Osaka International Airport, Itami, Hyogo prefecture (ITM)
- Tokyo International Airport, Ota, Tokyo (HND)
Note that, after the completion of Narita, Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) does not actually handle any intercontinental flights. However, following the ANA flight 61 hijacking (July 1999), the family of a killed pilot sued the Japanese government to compensate their loss, for the reason that Haneda is classified as a first class airport.
Second class airports
These handle regional and some international flights. There are currently twenty-six, with another under construction (New Kitakyushu Airport , Fukuoka prefecture).
- Akita Airport , Akita, Akita prefecture (AXT)
- Asahikawa Airport, Asahikawa, Hokkaido (AKJ)
- Fukuoka Airport, Fukuoka, Fukuoka prefecture (FUK)
- Hakodate Airport, Hakodate, Hokkaido (HKD)
- Hiroshima Airport , Hiroshima, Hiroshima prefecture (HIJ)
- Kagoshima Airport , Kagoshima, Kagoshima prefecture (KOJ)
- Kitakyushu Airport , Kitakyushu, Fukuoka prefecture (KKJ)
- Kochi Airport , Kochi, Kochi prefecture (KCZ)
- Kumamoto Airport , Kumamoto, Kumamoto prefecture (KMJ)
- Kushiro Airport , Kushiro, Hokkaido (KUH)
- Matsuyama Airport , Matsuyama, Ehime prefecture (MYJ)
- Miyazaki Airport , Miyazaki prefecture (KMI)
- Nagasaki Airport , Nagasaki prefecture (NGS)
- Nagoya Airport, Aichi prefecture (NGO)
- Naha Airport, Okinawa prefecture (OKA)
- New Chitose Airport, Chitose, Hokkaido (CTS)
- Niigata Airport , Niigata, Niigata prefecture (KIJ)
- Obihiro Airport , Obihiro, Hokkaido(OBO)
- Oita Airport , Oita, Oita prefecture (OIT)
- Sendai Airport , Sendai, Miyagi prefecture (SDJ)
- Takamatsu Airport , Takamatsu, Kagawa prefecture (TAK)
- Wakkanai Airport , Wakkanai, Hokkaido (WKJ)
- Yamagata Airport , Yamagata, Yamagata prefecture (GAJ)
- Yamaguchi Ube Airport , Yamaguchi prefecture (UBJ)
- Yao Airport, Yao, Osaka prefecture (No IATA Code)
Third class airports
These handle domestic feeder flights. There are currently fifty-two, with four more under construction (Kobe Airport, New Ishigaki Airport , New Tarama Airport , and Shizuoka Airport ). Many third-class airports are small airstrips serving isolated islands of the archipelago.
- Aguni Airport , Okinawa prefecture (AGJ)
- Amami Airport , Okinawa prefecture (ASJ)
- Aomori Airport , Aomori, Aomori prefecture (AOJ)
- Fukue Airport , Fukue, Nagasaki prefecture (FUJ)
- Fukui Airport , Fukui, Fukui prefecture (FKJ)
- Fukushima Airport , Fukushima, Fukushima prefecture (FKS)
- Hachijojima Airport , Hachijojima , Tokyo (HAC)
- Hanamaki Airport , Hanamaki, Iwate prefecture (HNA)
- Hateruma Airport , Okinawa prefecture (HTR)
- Iejima Airport , Iejima , Okinawa prefecture (IEJ)
- Iki Airport , Nagasaki prefecture (IKI)
- Ishigaki Airport , Okinawa prefecture (ISG)
- Izumo Airport , Hikawa , Shimane prefecture (IZO)
- Kamigoto Airport , Nagasaki prefecture (***)
- Kerama Airport , Okinawa prefecture (KJP)
- Kikai Airport , Okinawa prefecture (KKX)
- Kita-Daito Airport , Okinawa prefecture (KTD)
- Kozushima Airport , Kozushima , Tokyo (***)
- Kumejima Airport , Okinawa prefecture (UEO)
- Matsumoto Airport , Matsumoto, Nagano prefecture (MMJ)
- Memanbetsu Airport , Memanbetsu , Hokkaido (MMB)
- Minami-Daito Airport , Okinawa prefecture (***)
- Miyakejima Airport , Miyakejima , Tokyo (MYE)
- Miyako Airport , Hirara, Okinawa prefecture (***)
- Monbetsu Airport, Monbetsu, Hokkaido (MBE)
- Nakashibetsu Airport , Nakashibetsu , Hokkaido (SHB)
- Nanki-Shirahama Airport , Wakayama prefecture (SHM)
- Niijima Airport , Niijima , Tokyo (***)
- Noto Airport , Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture (***)
- Odate-Noshiro Airport , Akita prefecture (***)
- Ojika Airport , Nagasaki prefecture (***)
- Okayama Airport , Okayama, Okayama prefecture (OKJ)
- Oki Airport , Oki, Shimane prefecture (OKI)
- Okierabu Airport , Kagoshima prefecture (***)
- Okushiri Airport , Okushiri , Hokkaido (OIR)
- Oshima Airport , Oshima, Tokyo (OIM)
- Rebun Airport , Rebun , Hokkaido (RBJ)
- Rishiri Airport , Rishiri , Hokkaido (RIS)
- Sado Airport , Ryotsu, Niigata prefecture (SDS)
- Saga Airport , Saga, Saga prefecture (***)
- Shimojishima Airport , Okinawa prefecture (SHI)
- Shonai Airport , Sakata, Yamagata prefecture (SYO)
- Tanegashima Airport , Tanegashima, Kagoshima prefecture (***)
- Tarama Airport , Okinawa prefecture (***)
- Tokunoshima Airport , Tokunoshima , Kagoshima prefecture (***)
- Tottori Airport , Tottori, Tottori prefecture (TTJ)
- Toyama Airport, Toyama, Toyama prefecture (TOY)
- Tsushima Airport , Tsushima, Nagasaki prefecture (***)
- Yakushima Airport , Kagoshima prefecture (KUM)
- Yonaguni Airport , Okinawa prefecture (OGN)
- Yoron Airport , Kagoshima prefecture (***)
Other airports
Civil airports that are not classified under this system include:
- Chofu Airport, Chofu, Tokyo
- Hyakuri Airport , Mito, Ibaraki prefecture (***) (under construction)
- Kasaoka Airfield , Kasaoka, Okayama prefecture
- Komatsu Airport , Komatsu, Fukui prefecture (KMQ)
- Misawa Air Base, Misawa, Aomori prefecture (MSJ)
- Okadama Airport, Sapporo, Hokkaido (OKD)
- Tokushima Airport , Tokushima, Tokushima prefecture (TKS)