is a public aerodrome located about south of

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, Japan.

History

The airport opened on October 13, 1962, as Okayama Airport. It had scheduled service by

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(Tokyo Haneda) and

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(Matsuyama and Miyazaki); however, the runway was too short to accommodate jet service, and the largest aircraft that could reliably use the airport was the

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. On March 11, 1988, concurrently with the opening of new Okayama Airport, Konan became an airport exclusively for small planes under the present name. A ten-seat

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jet overshot the runway at the airport on June 10, 2015, landing in a nearby lake.

Ground transportation

Bus

References

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