Miyazaki Airport (original) (raw)

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International airport in Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

This article is about the airport in Miyazaki prefecture. For the radio station, see DZRJ-FM.

Miyazaki Airport宮崎空港_Miyazaki Kūkō_

IATA: KMIICAO: RJFM
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Serves	Miyazaki Prefecture
Hub for	Solaseed Air
Elevation AMSL	19 ft / 6 m
Coordinates	31°52′38″N 131°26′55″E / 31.87722°N 131.44861°E / 31.87722; 131.44861
Map
KMI/RJFMLocation in Miyazaki PrefectureShow map of Miyazaki PrefectureKMI/RJFMLocation in JapanShow map of Japan

Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 09/27 2,500 8,202 Asphalt concrete
Statistics (2015)
Passengers2,976,563Cargo (metric tonnes)8,516Aircraft movement42,045
Source: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism [1]

Miyazaki Airport (宮崎空港, _Miyazaki Kūkō) (IATA: KMI, ICAO: RJFM), also known as Miyazaki Bougainvillea Airport, is an international airport located 3.2 km (2.0 mi) south southeast[2] of Miyazaki city, in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. The second floor has the head office of Solaseed Air.[3]

The airport opened in 1943 as an Imperial Japanese Navy base during World War II, and was a major base for kamikaze units beginning in February 1945, sending a total of 47 aircraft on suicide missions during operations such as the Battle of Okinawa.[4]

Airlines and destinations

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Airlines	Destinations
All Nippon Airways	Osaka–Itami, Tokyo–Haneda
ANA Wings	Fukuoka, Nagoya–Centrair, Osaka–Itami
Asiana Airlines	Seoul–Incheon [5]
J-Air	Fukuoka, Osaka–Itami
Japan Airlines	Tokyo–Haneda
Jetstar Japan	Tokyo–Narita
Oriental Air Bridge	Fukuoka, Nagoya–Centrair [6]
Peach Aviation	Osaka–Kansai, Tokyo–Narita [7]
Solaseed Air	Nagoya–Centrair, Naha, Tokyo–Haneda
Tigerair Taiwan	Taipei–Taoyuan [8]

The airport is connected to various locations by bus and taxi. There is also a railway line, the Miyazaki Kūkō Line, which connects the airport with the city center of Miyazaki and northern cities of the prefecture.

Accidents and incidents

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On 10 October 1969, All Nippon Airways Flight 104 [ja] overran the runway. All four crew and 49 passengers survived.[9]
On 2 October 2024, a bomb that was dropped by US Forces during World War II exploded under a taxiway, damaging the surface and causing the cancellation of more than 80 flights.[10][11]

^ "Miyazaki Airport" (PDF). Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
^ AIS Japan Archived 2016-05-17 at the Portuguese Web Archive
^ 会社概要. Solaseed Air. Archived from the original on January 26, 2014. Retrieved January 26, 2014. 本社〒 880-0912 宮崎市大字赤江宮崎空港内（宮崎空港ビル2階）().
^ 元特攻隊員、宮崎空港での記念館新設に懸命かつて海軍飛行場. The Nikkei (in Japanese). 16 August 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
^ "Asiana Airlines Resumes Miyazaki Service From late-Sep 2023". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
^ "Oriental Air Bridge Adds Nagoya and ATR42-600 Service in NS23". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
^ Liu, Jim. "Peach schedules new routes from Tokyo in August 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
^ "tigerair Taiwan Schedules 20th Destination in Japan From late-Nov 2024". AeroRoutes. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 20 February 2009.
^ "宮崎空港陥没は米軍の戦時中の不発弾と判明滑走路は運用再開" [Miyazaki Airport cave-in identified as an unexploded wartime bomb from the US military; runway resumes operation]. NHK. 2 October 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
^ "Runway closed at southwest Japan airport after explosion on taxiway". Kyodo News. Retrieved 2 October 2024.

Media related to Miyazaki Airport at Wikimedia Commons
Miyazaki Airport Guide from Japan Airlines
Current weather for RJFM at NOAA/NWS
Accident history for KMI at Aviation Safety Network