Ojika Airport is a public aerodrome, located about southeastAIS Japan
/ref> of the town office in Ojika,

Nagasaki Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Nagasaki Prefecture has a population of 1,314,078 (1 June 2020) and has a geographic area of 4,130 Square kilometre, km2 (1,594 sq mi). Nagasaki Prefecture borders ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

History

The STOL (short take-off and landing) airport opened on 20 December 1985 on land reclaimed from the coastal strip at the island's southeasterly tip. Nagasaki Airways, rebranded as

Oriental Air Bridge is an airline headquartered on the grounds of Nagasaki Airport and in Ōmura, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It operates in southern Japan, offering charter services and a scheduled service between Nagasaki and Fukuoka. Its main base is Nagasaki Airp ...

after March 2001, operated passenger services to two airports on

Kyushu is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surroun ...

using BN2 light prop-planes. Flights to Fukuoka Airport was dropped in March 2004. The last regular connection, to

Nagasaki Airport is an international airport located west of the railway station in the city of Ōmura and north northeast of the Nagasaki railway station in the city of Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The airport terminal and runway 14/32 are on a ...

, saw only few passengers carried during 2005 and ended in March 2006. Since then, the airport remains in operation but only for private planes and for transporting emergency patients by helicopter. In 2018 just over 150 landings were reported mainly helicopters.Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
/ref> Nagasaki Prefecture has discussed abolishing the airport and simply maintaining the runway in case of need for disaster relief.

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