Airport type Public Elevation AMSL 8 ft / 2 m 2,000 6,562 Elevation 17 m Passenger count 168,532 | Operator Government 01/19 2,000 Code TKN Phone +81 997-85-2271 | |
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Serves Tokunoshima
Amagi, Kagoshima, Japan Address Japan, 〒891-7605 Kagoshima Prefecture, Oshima District, 天城町浅間1−1 Similar オリックスレンタカー徳之島空, Toyota Car Rental, 日産レンタカー空港営業所, ジャパレン徳之島空港カウンター, タイムズカーレンタル徳之島空 | ||
Tokunoshima Airport (徳之島空港, Tokunoshima Kūkō) (IATA: TKN, ICAO: RJKN) is an airport on the island of Tokunoshima, located in the town of Amagi, Ōshima District, Kagoshima Prefecture of Japan.
History
Tokunoshima Airport was opened on 23 February 1962 as a private venture by Toa Domestic Airlines with a 1080-meter runway. The airport was turned over to Kagoshima Prefecture on 24 October 1970, and was designed a 3rd class airport by the Japanese government on 27 February 1973. The runway was extended to 1200 meters on 1 June 1973, and to 2000 meters on 1 June 1980, becoming the first amongst Kagoshima’s offshore airports to be capable of handling jet aircraft operations.
In 2006, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama offered the use of Tokunoshima to the United States as a relocation site for Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, leading to widespread protests.
In 2015, The airport will construct the new terminal building to add Boeing 767 to the airport, They will also had 2 jet bridge with the new terminal, it would begin constructed from 2016.