, also known as Tanegashima Airport,
from Japan Airlines is located in Nakatane, on Tanegashima, one of the Ōsumi Islands in southern

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. The original Tanegashima Airport was opened on July 27, 1962, at a site approximately southeast of the present airport. Although its runway was extended from to in 1973, it was not suitable to handle jet aircraft, and was closed on March 16, 2006, the day that the New Tanegashima Airport, with a runway was opened.

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