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Tottori Airport
is an airport serving the city of Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. The airport is owned and operated by the , and has a passenger volume of approximately 330,000 per year. The Airport is nicknamed , called after merged with names from ''Tottori Sand Dunes'' and ''Detective Conan'' (''Case Closed'') of manga artist Gosho Aoyama, who was born in Hokuei. History was built south of the present airport in 1957, and had a runway long and wide. It closed in 1964. In 1967 the present-day Tottori Airport was built and opened by the prefectural government and had a runway long and wide. The runway was successively lengthened in 1972 to , in 1985 to , and to its present length of in 1990. The runway is constructed of asphalt concrete. Tottori Airport originally had service only to Tokyo, but the Tokyo service ceased in 1969 when the airport began flights to Osaka. The airport had service to both Osaka and Tokyo service from 1979 to 1985, but now only serves Tokyo. Facilities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tottori Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Tottori Prefecture is the least populous prefecture of Japan at 570,569 (2016) and has a geographic area of . Tottori Prefecture borders Shimane Prefecture to the west, Hiroshima Prefecture to the southwest, Okayama Prefecture to the south, and Hyōgo Prefecture to the east. Tottori is the capital and largest city of Tottori Prefecture, with other major cities including Yonago, Kurayoshi, and Sakaiminato. Tottori Prefecture is home to the Tottori Sand Dunes, the largest sand dunes system in Japan, and Mount Daisen, the highest peak in the Chūgoku Mountains. Etymology The word "Tottori" in Japanese is formed from two ''kanji'' characters. The first, , means "bird" and the second, means "to get". Early residents in the area made their living catching the region's plentiful waterfowl. The name first appears in the Nihon shoki in the 23rd year of the Emperor Suinin (213 AD) when Yukuha Tana, an elder from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
