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Amami Airport 奄美空港 Amami Kūkō
IATA: ASJ ICAO: RJKA
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Government
Serves	Amami Ōshima (Amami Island), Japan
Elevation  AMSL	14 ft / 4 m
Coordinates	28°25′51″N 129°42′45″E / 28.43083°N 129.71250°E / 28.43083; 129.71250
Map
RJKA Location in Japan Show map of Kagoshima Prefecture RJKA RJKA (Japan) Show map of Japan
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 03/21 2,000 6,562 Asphalt concrete
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 676,601 Cargo (metric tonnes) 1,097 Aircraft movement 15,292
Source: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism [1]

Amami Airport (奄美空港, Amami Kūkō) ( IATA: ASJ, ICAO: RJKA) is an airport located 21.9 km (13.6 mi) east northeast of Amami, a city on Amami Ōshima (Amami Island) in the Kagoshima Prefecture of Japan. ^[2]

History

Amami Airport was opened as Amami Oshima Airport (奄美大島空港, Amami-Ōshima Kūkō) 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.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Statistics

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Annual passenger traffic at ASJ airport. See Wikidata query.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Amami Airport.

• Amami Airport (Kagoshima Prefecture) (in Japanese)
• Amami Airport Guide from Japan Airlines
• Current weather for RJKA at NOAA/ NWS
• Accident history for ASJ at Aviation Safety Network