Itazuke Air Base
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Fukuoka Airport 福岡空港 Fukuoka Kūkō |
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| Airport type | Military/Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Civil Aviation Bureau Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism |
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| Location | Fukuoka, Fukuoka | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 30 ft / 9 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°35′04″N 130°27′06″E / 33.58444°N 130.45167°ECoordinates: 33°35′04″N 130°27′06″E / 33.58444°N 130.45167°E | ||||||||||
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Source: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
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| Passengers | 20,968,463 |
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| Cargo (metric tonnes) | 246,769 |
| Aircraft movement | 173,680 |
Fukuoka Airport (福岡空港 Fukuoka Kūkō?) (IATA: FUK, ICAO: RJFF), formerly known as Itazuke Air Base, is an international and domestic airport located 1.6 NM (3.0 km; 1.8 mi) east of Hakata Station in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.
Fukuoka Airport is the principal airport on the island of Kyushu and is the fourth busiest passenger airport in Japan. It is also the third busiest single-runway airport in the world by passenger traffic (after London–Gatwick and İstanbul-Sabiha Gökçen). The airport is surrounded by residential areas; flights stop at 10 p.m. at the request of local residents and resume operation at 7 a.m. The domestic terminal is connected to the city by the Fukuoka City Subway, and a subway from the airport to the business district takes less than ten minutes. The international terminal is only accessible by road, although there is scheduled bus service to Hakata Station and the Tenjin area. Alternatives to access the Fukuoka area include Saga Airport and Kitakyushu Airport.
The airport was built in 1944 by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force as Mushiroda Airfield. After the war, the United States Air Force used the airfield as Itazuke Air Base from 1945 to 1972. Itazuke actually comprised three installations: Itazuke AB, Itazuke (Kasuga) Administration Annex and Brady Air Base (Camp Brady). Itazuke and the Kasuga Annex were on the mainland while Brady was in Saitozaki; on the peninsula (Umi no Nakamichi) that forms Hakata Bay. Part of the confusion with the names stem from the days when the annex and Brady AB were Army installations before the USAF took command in 1956.
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