Chubu Centrair International Airport

Chubu Centrair International Airport 中部国際空港 Chūbu Kokusai Kūkō
Aerial photo from 2009, before Terminal 2 and the Flight of Dreams were built
IATA: NGO ICAO: RJGG
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Central Japan International Airport Co., Ltd. (CJIAC)
Serves	Chūkyō metropolitan area
Location	Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Opened	17 February 2005; 19 years ago (2005-02-17)
Focus city for	All Nippon Airways Japan Airlines Polar Air Cargo
Operating base for	Jetstar Japan
Elevation AMSL	12 ft / 4 m
Coordinates	34°51′30″N 136°48′19″E / 34.85833°N 136.80528°E / 34.85833; 136.80528
Website	www.centrair.jp
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 18/36 3,500 11,483 Concrete/asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passengers 12,043,636 Cargo (metric tonnes) 199,140 Aircraft movements 96,591
Source: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism[1]

Chubu Centrair International Airport (中部国際空港, Chūbu Kokusai Kūkō) (IATA: NGO, ICAO: RJGG) is an international airport on an artificial island (which also houses the Aichi International Exhibition Center [ja]) in Ise Bay, Tokoname City in Aichi Prefecture, 35 km (22 mi) south of Nagoya in central Japan.^[2] The airport covers about 470 hectares (1,161 acres) of land and has one 3,500 m (11,500 ft) runway.^[3]

Centrair is classified as a first class airport and is the main international gateway for the Chubu ("central") region of Japan. The name "Centrair" (セントレア, Sentorea) is an abbreviation of Central Japan International Airport, an alternate translation used in the English name of the airport's operating company, Central Japan International Airport Co., Ltd. (中部国際空港株式会社, Chūbu Kokusai Kūkō Kabushiki-gaisha).

12.35 million people used the airport in 2018, ranking 8th busiest in the nation, and 212,797 tons of cargo was moved in 2018.

In 2019, the airport was ranked the fifth-best airport in the world by Skytrax’s World’s Top Airports 100, and received the World’s Best Regional Airport and the Best Regional Airport in Asia.