Akita Airport

Akita Airport

秋田空港

Akita Kūkō

Domestic terminal

IATA: AXT
ICAO: RJSK
WMO: 47545

Summary

Airport type

Public

Operator

Akita Prefecture

Serves

Akita, Akita, Japan

Elevation AMSL

305 ft / 93 m

Coordinates

39°36′56″N 140°13′07″E / 39.61556°N 140.21861°E

Map

RJSK

Location in Japan

RJSK

RJSK (Japan)

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
10/28	2,500	8,202	Asphalt/concrete

Statistics (2015)

Passengers	1,238,082
Cargo (metric tonnes)	1,711
Aircraft movement	18,967

Source: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism^[1]

Akita Airport (秋田空港, Akita Kūkō) (IATA: AXT, ICAO: RJSK) is an airport located 14 km (8.7 mi) southeast of Akita Station^[2], in Akita Prefecture, Japan.

YouTube Encyclopedic

1/4
Views:
6 896
272 143
2 920
734

Transcription

History

Akita Airport was originally opened on October 1, 1961, on the Omonogawa coast of the Sea of Japan approximately 20 kilometers southeast of the center of Akita City. The airport originally had a 1,200-meter runway, which was extended to 1,500 meters in 1967 and 1,625 meters in 1969, but was adversely affected by crosswinds, and by the television transmission antennas of 123-meter Mount Omoriyama adjacent to the site.

The current Akita Airport was opened at its present location on June 26, 1981, and was the first civilian airport in the Tōhoku region of Japan to have a 2,500-meter runway. In 1985, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force established a search and rescue unit based at Akita Airport. As of 2016 it is equipped with UH-60J and U-125A aircraft.^[3] An international terminal was established on July 5, 1993, beginning scheduled flights to South Korea.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
All Nippon Airways	Tokyo–Haneda
ANA Wings	Nagoya–Centrair, Osaka–Itami, Sapporo–Chitose
Hokkaido Air System	Sapporo–Okadama^[4]
J-Air	Osaka–Itami
Japan Airlines	Tokyo–Haneda Charter: Osaka–Kansai^{[citation needed]}
Oriental Air Bridge	Nagoya–Centrair^[5]
Tigerair Taiwan	Taipei–Taoyuan^[6]

References

^ "Akita Airport" (PDF). Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
^ AIS Japan Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
^ Thompson, Paul JASDF Order of Battle J-HangarSpace Retrieved December 10, 2016
^ "JAL Group Sapporo – Akita NW23 Service Changes". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
^ "Oriental Air Bridge Adds Nagoya and ATR42-600 Service in NS23". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
^ "Tigerair Taiwan Tentatively Schedules Akita Dec 2023 Launch". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 14 August 2023.

External links

Media related to Akita Airport at Wikimedia Commons

Airports in Japan

¹ Joint civil-military use

Major hubs

International

Hokkaidō	Asahikawa Hakodate
Tōhoku	Akita Aomori Sendai
Kantō	Ibaraki (Hyakuri)¹
Chūbu	Komatsu¹ Niigata Shizuoka Toyama
Chūgoku	Hiroshima Miho–Yonago¹ Okayama
Shikoku	Kōchi Matsuyama Takamatsu
Kyushu	Kitakyushu Nagasaki Oita Saga¹ Kagoshima Kumamoto Miyazaki
Okinawa	Ishigaki (Painushima) Shimojishima¹

Domestic

General aviation

Military

Heliports

Defunct

Statistics

List of the busiest airports in Japan

v t e Transit in Akita Prefecture
JR East	Akita Shinkansen Gonō Line Hanawa Line Kitakami Line Oga Line Ōu Main Line Tazawako Line Uetsu Main Line
Akita Nairiku Jūkan Railway	Akita Nairiku Line
Yuri Kōgen Railway	Chōkai Sanroku Line
Named trains	Akebono Inaho Komachi Nihonkai Resort Shirakami Tsugaru
Bus	Akita Chūō Kōtsū [tl] Shūhoku Bus [ja] Ugo Kōtsū [ja]
Public ferries	Shin Nihonkai Ferry
Misc	Akita Station Akita Airport Odate-Noshiro Airport Ports Akita Funagawa Noshiro
Japan transit: Tokyo Keihanshin Nagoya Fukuoka Hakone Fuji Izu Hokkaido Aomori Sendai Akita Niigata Toyama Nagano Okayama Hiroshima Shikoku Metro systems Shinkansen trams (list) aerial lifts (list)

Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	United States

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia