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Japan: airports in numbers
Japan totals 29 large airports, 79 medium ones and 171 small fields in the open OurAirports register. The pair at the top of the table, Aomori Airport (AOJ) and Chubu Centrair International Airport (NGO), sits 736.9 km apart in a straight line, with the second one southwest of the first. With no traffic data in the source, the "main airport" title is a declared proxy: large ahead of medium, scheduled service ahead of the rest.
The airports, one by one
| # | Airport | IATA | ICAO | City | Size | Elevation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aomori Airport | AOJ | RJSA | Aomori | large | 202 m (664 ft) |
| 2 | Chubu Centrair International Airport | NGO | RJGG | Tokoname | large | 5 m (15 ft) |
| 3 | Fukuoka Airport | FUK | RJFF | Fukuoka | large | 10 m (32 ft) |
| 4 | Hakodate Airport | HKD | RJCH | Hakodate | large | 46 m (151 ft) |
| 5 | Hiroshima Airport | HIJ | RJOA | Hiroshima | large | 332 m (1,088 ft) |
| 6 | Ibaraki Airport | IBR | RJAH | Omitama | large | 32 m (105 ft) |
| 7 | Kagoshima Airport | KOJ | RJFK | Kagoshima | large | 276 m (906 ft) |
| 8 | Kansai International Airport | KIX | RJBB | Osaka | large | 8 m (26 ft) |
| 9 | Kitakyushu Airport | KKJ | RJFR | Kitakyushu | large | 6 m (21 ft) |
| 10 | Kobe Airport | UKB | RJBE | Kobe | large | 7 m (22 ft) |
| 11 | Kochi Ryoma Airport | KCZ | RJOK | Nankoku | large | 13 m (42 ft) |
| 12 | Komatsu Airport / JASDF Komatsu Air Base | KMQ | RJNK | Kanazawa | large | 11 m (36 ft) |
| 13 | Kumamoto Airport | KMJ | RJFT | Kumamoto | large | 196 m (642 ft) |
| 14 | Kyushu Saga International Airport | HSG | RJFS | Saga | large | 2 m (6 ft) |
| 15 | Matsuyama Airport | MYJ | RJOM | Matsuyama | large | 8 m (25 ft) |
| 16 | Miyazaki Airport | KMI | RJFM | Miyazaki | large | 6 m (20 ft) |
| 17 | Mount Fuji Shizuoka Airport | FSZ | RJNS | Makinohara / Shimada | large | 132 m (433 ft) |
| 18 | Nagasaki Airport | NGS | RJFU | Nagasaki | large | 5 m (15 ft) |
| 19 | Naha International Airport | OKA | ROAH | Naha | large | 4 m (12 ft) |
| 20 | Narita International Airport | NRT | RJAA | Narita | large | 43 m (141 ft) |
| 21 | New Chitose Airport | CTS | RJCC | Sapporo | large | 25 m (82 ft) |
| 22 | Niigata Airport | KIJ | RJSN | Niigata | large | 9 m (29 ft) |
| 23 | Okayama Momotaro Airport | OKJ | RJOB | Okayama | large | 246 m (806 ft) |
| 24 | Osaka Itami International Airport | ITM | RJOO | Osaka | large | 15 m (50 ft) |
| 25 | Sendai Airport | SDJ | RJSS | Natori | large | 5 m (15 ft) |
| 26 | Takamatsu Airport | TAK | RJOT | Takamatsu | large | 185 m (607 ft) |
| 27 | Tokushima Awaodori Airport / JMSDF Tokushima Air Base | TKS | RJOS | Tokushima | large | 8 m (26 ft) |
| 28 | Tokyo Haneda International Airport | HND | RJTT | Tokyo | large | 11 m (35 ft) |
| 29 | Kadena Air Base | DNA | RODN | Okinawa | large | 44 m (143 ft) |
| 30 | Akita Airport | AXT | RJSK | Akita | medium | 95 m (313 ft) |
| 31 | Amakusa Airport | AXJ | RJDA | Amakusa | medium | 104 m (340 ft) |
| 32 | Amami Airport | ASJ | RJKA | Amami | medium | 8 m (27 ft) |
| 33 | Asahikawa Airport | AKJ | RJEC | Higashikagura | medium | 220 m (721 ft) |
| 34 | Chofu Airport | - | RJTF | Chofu | medium | 43 m (141 ft) |
| 35 | Fukue Airport | FUJ | RJFE | Goto | medium | 83 m (273 ft) |
| 36 | Fukushima Airport | FKS | RJSF | Sukagawa | medium | 372 m (1,221 ft) |
| 37 | Hachijojima Airport | HAC | RJTH | Hachijojima | medium | 92 m (303 ft) |
| 38 | Iki Airport | IKI | RJDB | Iki | medium | 12 m (41 ft) |
| 39 | Iwakuni Kintaikyo Airport | IWK | RJOI | Iwakuni | medium | 2 m (7 ft) |
| 40 | Iwami Airport | IWJ | RJOW | Masuda | medium | 56 m (184 ft) |
| 41 | Iwate Hanamaki Airport | HNA | RJSI | Hanamaki | medium | 91 m (297 ft) |
| 42 | Izumo Enmusubi Airport | IZO | RJOC | Izumo | medium | 5 m (15 ft) |
| 43 | Kikai Airport | KKX | RJKI | Kikai | medium | 6 m (21 ft) |
| 44 | Kitadaito Airport | KTD | RORK | Kitadaitōjima | medium | 24 m (80 ft) |
| 45 | Konotori Tajima Airport | TJH | RJBT | Toyooka | medium | 178 m (584 ft) |
| 46 | Kumejima Airport | UEO | ROKJ | Kumejima | medium | 7 m (23 ft) |
| 47 | Kushiro Airport | KUH | RJCK | Kushiro | medium | 100 m (327 ft) |
| 48 | Memanbetsu Airport | MMB | RJCM | Ōzora | medium | 41 m (135 ft) |
| 49 | Minamidaito Airport | MMD | ROMD | Minamidaito | medium | 51 m (167 ft) |
| 50 | Misawa Airport / Misawa Air Base | MSJ | RJSM | Misawa | medium | 36 m (119 ft) |
| 51 | Miyakejima Airport | MYE | RJTQ | Miyakejima | medium | 20 m (67 ft) |
| 52 | Miyako Airport | MMY | ROMY | Miyakojima | medium | 46 m (150 ft) |
| 53 | Monbetsu Airport | MBE | RJEB | Monbetsu | medium | 24 m (80 ft) |
| 54 | Nagoya Airport / JASDF Komaki Air Base | NKM | RJNA | Nagoya | medium | 16 m (52 ft) |
| 55 | Nakashibetsu Airport | SHB | RJCN | Nakashibetsu | medium | 71 m (234 ft) |
| 56 | Nanki Shirahama Airport | SHM | RJBD | Shirahama | medium | 91 m (298 ft) |
| 57 | New Ishigaki Airport | ISG | ROIG | Ishigaki | medium | 31 m (102 ft) |
| 58 | New Tanegashima Airport | TNE | RJFG | Tanegashima | medium | 234 m (768 ft) |
| 59 | Noto Satoyama Airport | NTQ | RJNW | Wajima | medium | 219 m (718 ft) |
| 60 | Odate Noshiro Airport | ONJ | RJSR | Kitaakita | medium | 89 m (292 ft) |
The table shows 60 of the country's 108 large and medium airports, in the declared order: large before medium, scheduled service first, name as tiebreaker.
The geography of Japan's fields
The country's highest airport in the register is Shinshu-Matsumoto Airport, at 665 m (2,182 ft); the lowest is Kyushu Saga International Airport, at 2 m (6 ft). The northernmost field is Wakkanai Airport (Wakkanai), at latitude 45.40 N, and the southernmost is New Ishigaki Airport (Ishigaki), at 24.40 N: 2,818.2 km separate the two extremes in a straight line. Of the 108 large and medium fields listed, 83 had scheduled service in the source's snapshot. Between the highest and the lowest field there is a 663 m elevation gap. The IATA codes at the top of the table: AOJ, NGO, FUK, HKD, HIJ, IBR, KOJ, KIX.
Source and method
The size classes used for Japan (large, medium, small) come from OurAirports itself, a public domain source, snapshot of 2026-07-08, with heliports and closed fields left out of the count. Elevations arrive in feet and this site converts them to meters; every distance is haversine, in a straight line. Passenger traffic does not exist in the source, which is why the "main airport" title in Japan is only a declared proxy, the table order. In the world ranking by large airports, Japan sits in 5th place, next to India and Mexico. The whole planet, country by country, lives in the airports of the world in numbers.
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