Miyazaki Airport

International airport in Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

RJFM

Location in Miyazaki Prefecture

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RJFM

Location in Japan

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Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
09/27	2,500	8,202	Asphalt concrete

Statistics (2015)

Passengers	2,976,563
Cargo (metric tonnes)	8,516
Aircraft movement	42,045

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

Miyazaki Airport (宮崎空港, Miyazaki Kūkō) (IATA: KMI, ICAO: RJFM), also known as Miyazaki Bougainvillea Airport, is an international airport located 3.2 km (2.0 mi) south southeast^[2] of Miyazaki, a city in the Miyazaki Prefecture of Japan. The second floor has the head office of Solaseed Air.^[3]

History

The airport opened in 1943 as an Imperial Japanese Navy base during World War II, and was a major base for "kamikaze" units beginning in February 1945, sending a total of 47 aircraft on suicide missions during operations such as the Battle of Okinawa.^[4]

In October 1969, All Nippon Airways Flight 104 overran a runway at Miyazaki Airport by 132 metres. All four crew and 49 passengers survived.^[5]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
All Nippon Airways	Osaka–Itami, Tokyo–Haneda
ANA Wings	Fukuoka, Nagoya–Centrair, Osaka–Itami
Asiana Airlines	Seoul–Incheon^[6]
J-Air	Fukuoka, Osaka–Itami
Japan Airlines	Tokyo–Haneda
Jetstar Japan	Tokyo–Narita
Oriental Air Bridge	Fukuoka, Nagoya–Centrair^[7]
Peach Aviation	Osaka–Kansai, Tokyo–Narita^[8]
Solaseed Air	Nagoya–Centrair, Naha, Tokyo–Haneda

Access

The airport is connected to various locations by bus and taxi. Also, there is a railway line, the Miyazaki Kūkō Line, which connects the airport with the city center of Miyazaki and northern cities of the prefecture.

References

^ "Miyazaki 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 2016-05-17 at the Portuguese Web Archive
^ 会社概要. Solaseed Air. Archived from the original on January 26, 2014. Retrieved January 26, 2014. 本社〒 880-0912 宮崎市大字赤江　宮崎空港内（宮崎空港ビル2階）().
^ 元特攻隊員、宮崎空港での記念館新設に懸命かつて海軍飛行場. The Nikkei (in Japanese). 16 August 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 20 February 2009.
^ "Asiana Airlines Resumes Miyazaki Service From late-Sep 2023". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
^ "Oriental Air Bridge Adds Nagoya and ATR42-600 Service in NS23". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
^ Liu, Jim. "Peach schedules new routes from Tokyo in August 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 1 July 2020.

External links

Media related to Miyazaki Airport at Wikimedia Commons
Miyazaki Airport Guide from Japan Airlines
Current weather for RJFM at NOAA/NWS
Accident history for KMI at Aviation Safety Network

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