Amami Airport | |
Nativename-A: | 奄美空港 |
Nativename-R: | Amami Kūkō |
Iata: | ASJ |
Icao: | RJKA |
Type: | Public |
Operator: | Government |
City-Served: | Amami Ōshima (Amami Island), Japan |
Coordinates: | 28.4308°N 129.7125°W |
Pushpin Map: | Japan Kagoshima Prefecture#Japan |
Pushpin Label: | RJKA |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Japan |
Elevation-F: | 14 |
Elevation-M: | 4 |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 03/21 |
R1-Length-M: | 2,000 |
R1-Length-F: | 6,562 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt concrete |
Stat-Year: | 2015 |
Stat1-Header: | Passengers |
Stat1-Data: | 676,601 |
Stat2-Header: | Cargo (metric tonnes) |
Stat2-Data: | 1,097 |
Stat3-Header: | Aircraft movement |
Stat3-Data: | 15,292 |
Footnotes: | Source: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism[1] |
is an airport located 21.9km (13.6miles) east northeast of Amami, a city on Amami Ōshima (Amami Island) in the Kagoshima Prefecture of Japan.[2]
Amami Airport was opened as on June 1, 1964, with a 1240-meter runway about 2 kilometers southwest of its current position.[3] A new airport with a runway of 2000 meters to accept jet aircraft was opened on 10 July 1988, at which time the former airport was closed. The remnants of the old airport can still be seen via satellite images.