Kitakyushu Airport 北九州空港 Kitakyūshū-kūkō | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Ministry of Transport (airfield) Kitakyushu Air Terminal Co. (terminal) | ||||||||||
| Serves | Kitakyushu | ||||||||||
| Location | Kokuraminami-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan | ||||||||||
| Opened | March 16, 2006 | ||||||||||
| Operating base for | StarFlyer | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 21 ft / 6 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°50′44″N 131°02′06″E / 33.84556°N 131.03500°E | ||||||||||
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  KKJ/RJFR Location in Fukuoka Prefecture  KKJ/RJFR Location in Japan | |||||||||||
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Source: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism[1] | |||||||||||
Kitakyushu Airport (北九州空港, Kitakyūshū-kūkō) (IATA: KKJ, ICAO: RJFR), sometimes called Kokuraminami Airport, is an airport in Kokuraminami-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is built on an artificial island in the western Seto Inland Sea, 3 km (1.9 mi) away from the city's downtown. It opened on 16 March 2006, as New Kitakyushu Airport (新北九州空港, Shin-kitakyūshū-kūkō) but was renamed in 2008. It has some international charter flights.
It is the fourth airport in Japan to begin operating 24 hours a day, after New Chitose Airport (Sapporo), Kansai International Airport (Osaka), and Chubu Centrair International Airport (Nagoya).
- ^ "Kitakyushu Airport" (PDF). Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2017.