New Ishigaki Airport 新石垣空港, Shin-Ishigaki Kūkō | |||||||||||
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| Operator | City of Ishigaki[1] | ||||||||||
| Serves | Ishigaki, Yaeyama Islands | ||||||||||
| Location | 1960-104-1 Shiraho District, Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan | ||||||||||
| Opened | March 7, 2013 | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 102 ft / 31 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 24°23′47″N 124°14′42″E / 24.39639°N 124.24500°E | ||||||||||
| Website | [1] (in English), [2] (in Japanese) | ||||||||||
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Source: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism[3] | |||||||||||
New Ishigaki Airport (新石垣空港, Shin-Ishigaki Kūkō), (IATA: ISG, ICAO: ROIG), also branded as Painushima Ishigaki Airport (南ぬ島石垣空港, Painushima Ishigaki Kūkō, "Southern Island Ishigaki Airport"),[Note 1][1][4] is a regional airport located in the Shiraho district of Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The airport is located near the eastern coast of Ishigaki Island. It connects the island to major cities in Japan as well as destinations throughout Okinawa Prefecture and the Yaeyama Islands. New Ishigaki Airport was built to replace Ishigaki Airport, which with a shorter runway of only 1,500 metres (4,900 ft), could not accommodate larger jets.
Operations at the old Ishigaki Airport ceased at midnight on March 6, 2013, and New Ishigaki Airport opened on March 7, 2013.[5]
Yaeyama Islands are in the spotlight as World Heritage islands and year-round tropical resort destination, and the airport serves more than 2.6 million people each year. Congestion at the airport has become a serious problem, so construction was completed to triple the size of the international terminal in 2022. The city authorities and Okinawa Prefecture are planning to extend the runway to 2,800 meters to meet the flight requests of airlines.
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