is an airport located east northeast Amami, a city on

Amami Ōshima , also known as Amami, is the largest island in the Amami archipelago between Kyūshū and Okinawa. It is one of the Satsunan Islands. The island, 712.35 km2 in area, has a population of approximately 73,000 people. Administratively it is d ...

(Amami Island) in the

Kagoshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands. Kagoshima Prefecture has a population of 1,599,779 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 9,187 km2 (3,547 sq mi). Kagoshima Prefecture borders Kumamoto P ...

of Japan.AIS Japan

History

Amami Airport was opened as on June 1, 1964 with a 1240-meter runway about 2 kilometers to the southwest from the current position.
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Japan Airlines , also known as JAL (''Jaru'') or , is an international airline and Japan's flag carrier and largest airline as of 2021 and 2022, headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Its main hubs are Tokyo's Narita International Airport and Haneda Airport, as w ...

''. June 29, 2006. Retrieved on May 25, 2009. A new airport with a runway of 2000 meters to accept jet aircraft was opened on 10 July 1988, at which time the former airport was closed. The former remnants of the old airports can still be seen via satellite images.

Airlines and destinations

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Amami Airport
(Kagoshima Prefecture)

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* * {{Japanese airports Amami Islands Airports in Kagoshima Prefecture Airports established in 1988 1988 establishments in Japan