Miyazaki Airport

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: KMI ICAO: 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
Map
KMI/RJFM Location in Miyazaki Prefecture Show map of Miyazaki Prefecture KMI/RJFM Location in Japan Show map of Japan
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 09/27 2,500 8,202 Asphalt concrete
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 2,976,563 Cargo (metric tonnes) 8,516 Aircraft movement 42,045
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]

History

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

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 (begins 26 November 2024)[8]

Access

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

• 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]

References

1. "Miyazaki Airport" (PDF). Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
2. AIS Japan Archived 2016-05-17 at the Portuguese Web Archive
3. 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）().
4. 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.
5. "Asiana Airlines Resumes Miyazaki Service From late-Sep 2023". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
6. "Oriental Air Bridge Adds Nagoya and ATR42-600 Service in NS23". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
7. Liu, Jim. "Peach schedules new routes from Tokyo in August 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
8. "tigerair Taiwan Schedules 20th Destination in Japan From late-Nov 2024". AeroRoutes. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
9. "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 20 February 2009.
10. "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.
11. "Runway closed at southwest Japan airport after explosion on taxiway". Kyodo News. Retrieved 2 October 2024.

External links

• 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