Nanki–Shirahama Airport

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
15/33	2,000	6,562	Asphalt concrete

Statistics (2015)

Passengers	127,472
Cargo (metric tonnes)	1
Aircraft movement	4,631

Nanki–Shirahama Airport (南紀白浜空港, Nanki Shirahama Kūkō) (IATA: SHM, ICAO: RJBD) is a third class airport located in the town of Shirahama, Wakayama, Japan. It serves the southern part of the Kii Peninsula with three daily Japan Airlines round-trips to Tokyo International Airport, utilizing Boeing 737-800 aircraft. The travel time is 65 minutes to Haneda and 75 minutes in reverse direction.^[2]

History

Nanki–Shirahama Airport is located in a hilly area about 1.5 kilometers southeast of the center of Shirahama Town, and was established by the Wakayama Prefectural government. It is the only airport in Wakayama prefecture and the southernmost airport in Honshu.The airport opened in April 1968 with a 1200 meter runway. Flights connecting Tokyo, Osaka (Itami) and Nagoya were opened, but subsequently the Osaka and Nagoya flights withdrew. An 1800 meter runway on the eastern adjacent land was completed on March 9, 1996 with the aim of upgrading the capability of the airport to handle jet aircraft. This runway was later extended to 2000 meters.

The airport is located about 65 kilometers south-southeast of the city of Wakayama, which is the administrative and economic center of the prefecture. However, Kansai International Airport, which opened in 1994 is located closer, which had resulted in Nanki-Shirahama Airport being used mostly by tourists visiting Nanki-Shirahama Onsen and locations further south.

The airport is operated by Nanki-Shirahama Airport, Inc., a special purpose company established by Industrial Growth Platform, Inc. and others, from April 1, 2019.^[3]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Japan Airlines	Tokyo–Haneda

Ground Transportation

The Michinori HD which operates the airport had thought that tried developing the airport into the hub of not only airline traffic but also other commerce. At present, the airport has turned the hub of various buses which come from Tokyo and Osaka, Kyoto.^[4]

Route buses

Bus stop	No	Via	Destination	Company	Note
Bus&Taxi	Circular-route Bus	Adventure World (Japan) Senjo-jiki Minakata Kumagusu Museum Kinki University	Shirahama Station	Meiko Bus
	Airport Bus	Adventure World (Japan) Shirahama Bus Center Shirahama Station Kii-Shinjo Station	Kii-Tanabe Station
	Rapid KumanoKodo	Kumano Kodo	Shingu Station
	Katsuura Line	Kii-Katsuura Station		Nankai Bus

Highway buses

Bus stop	No	Via	Destination	Company	Note
Express Bus Nanki Shirahama Airport	White Beach Shuttle	Yokohama Station Shinjuku Expressway Bus Terminal Ikebukuro Station	Omiya Station (Saitama)	Seibu Bus Meiko Bus
	Shirahama Express Osaka	Namba Station Osaka Station	Universal Studios Japan	Meiko Bus
	Shirahama BlueSky	Kyotanabe Bus stop	Kyoto Station

References

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Major hubsInternational

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

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