Naha Airport

For the military use of this facility, see Naha Air Base. For the airport in Naha, North Sulawesi, Indonesia (NAH/WAMH), see Naha Airport (Indonesia).
Naha Airport

那覇空港
Naha Kūkō
Summary
Airport typePublic / military
Owner/OperatorMinistry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
ServesOkinawa Prefecture
LocationNaha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
Opened1933; 91 years ago (1933)
Hub for
Focus city for
Operating base for
Elevation AMSL11 ft / 3 m
Coordinates26°11′45″N 127°38′45″E / 26.19583°N 127.64583°E / 26.19583; 127.64583
Websitewww.naha-airport.co.jp/en
Map
OKA/ROAH is located in Okinawa Prefecture
OKA/ROAH
OKA/ROAH
Location in Japan
OKA/ROAH is located in Japan
OKA/ROAH
OKA/ROAH
OKA/ROAH (Japan)
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
18L/36R 3,000 9,843 Asphalt concrete
18R/36L[1] 2,700 8,858 Asphalt concrete
Statistics (2015)
Passengers18,336,030
Cargo (metric tonnes)399,764
Aircraft movement156,245

Naha Airport (那覇空港, Naha Kūkō) (IATA: OKA, ICAO: ROAH) is an international airport located 4 km (2.5 mi) west of the city hall[3] in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It is Japan's sixth busiest airport and the primary air terminal for passengers and cargo traveling to and from Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It handles scheduled international traffic to Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and mainland China. The airport is also home to Naha Air Base of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.

Naha Airport is the hub for Japan Transocean Air, which connects Okinawa Prefecture with other prefectures of Japan, and Ryukyu Air Commuter, which connects Okinawa main island with surrounding islands.

Naha Airport is a 24-hour airport, and served 21.5 million passengers in 2018, an increase of roughly three million passengers in two years. It’s the sixth busiest airport in Japan after New Chitose Airport in Sapporo. As of 2022, the route between Tokyo Haneda Airport and Naha Airport is the third busiest in Japan, while the route between Fukuoka Airport and Naha is the seventh busiest. The longest domestic scheduled flight in Japan is the daily route between New Chitose and Naha, operated by Peach Aviation. The flight takes 4 hours.

According to Skytrax’s World Top Airports 100 in 2024, Naha Airport is ranked 91st in the world, a significant improvement from 199th place the previous year, making Naha Airport the most improved airport in the world.

Aerial view of Naha Airport (26 May 2010)
Aerial view of Naha Airport (April 2019) after the completion of the second runway
  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference secondrwy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Naha Airport" (PDF). Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  3. ^ AIS Japan Archived 2016-05-17 at the Portuguese Web Archive