Miyazaki Airport

Miyazaki Airport
宮崎空港
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorMinistry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
ServesMiyazaki Prefecture, Japan
Hub forSolaseed Air
Elevation AMSL19 ft (5.8 m)
Coordinates31°52′38″N 131°26′55″E / 31.87722°N 131.44861°E / 31.87722; 131.44861
Map
KMI/RJFM is located in Miyazaki Prefecture
KMI/RJFM
KMI/RJFM
Location in Miyazaki Prefecture
KMI/RJFM is located in Japan
KMI/RJFM
KMI/RJFM
Location in Japan
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
09/27 2,500 8,202 Asphalt concrete
Statistics (2024)
Passengers3,116,019
Cargo (metric tonnes)5,814
Aircraft movement18,422
Source: Miyazaki Prefecture[1]

Miyazaki Airport (宮崎空港, Miyazaki Kūkō) (IATA: KMI, ICAO: RJFM), affectionately known as Miyazaki Bougainvillea Airport, is an international airport located 3.2 km (2.0 mi) south-southeast[2] of Miyazaki city, in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. The second floor has the head office of Solaseed Air.[3]

History

Aerial view of Miyazaki Airport in 2017.
Aerial view of Miyazaki Airport in 1975.
Aerial view of Miyazaki Airport in 1947 when it was an air base.

The airport opened in 1943 as an Imperial Japanese Navy base during World War II, and was a major base for kamikaze units beginning in February 1945, sending a total of 47 aircraft on suicide missions during operations such as the Battle of Okinawa.[4]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
All Nippon Airways Osaka–Itami, Tokyo–Haneda
ANA Wings Nagoya–Centrair, Osaka–Itami
Asiana Airlines Seoul–Incheon[5]
J-Air Fukuoka, Osaka–Itami
Japan Airlines Tokyo–Haneda
Jetstar Japan Tokyo–Narita
Oriental Air Bridge Fukuoka
Peach Aviation Osaka–Kansai, Tokyo–Narita[6]
Solaseed Air Nagoya–Centrair, Naha, Tokyo–Haneda
Tigerair Taiwan Taipei–Taoyuan[7]

Access

The airport is connected to various locations by bus and taxi. There is also a railway line, the Miyazaki Kūkō Line, which connects the airport with the city center of Miyazaki and northern cities of the prefecture.

Accidents and incidents

  • On 10 October 1969, All Nippon Airways Flight 104 overran the runway. All four crew and 49 passengers survived.[8]
  • On 2 October 2024, a bomb that was dropped by US Forces during World War II exploded under a taxiway, damaging the surface and causing the cancellation of more than 80 flights.[9][10]

References

  1. ↑ "宮崎空港乗降客数" (PDF). Miyazaki Prefecture. Retrieved 2026-03-22.
  2. ↑ AIS Japan Archived 2016-05-17 at the Portuguese Web Archive
  3. ↑ 会社概要. Solaseed Air. Retrieved January 26, 2014. 本社 〒 880-0912 宮崎市大字赤江　宮崎空港内（宮崎空港ビル2階）{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)().
  4. ↑ 元特攻隊員、宮崎空港での記念館新設に懸命 かつて海軍飛行場. The Nikkei (in Japanese). 16 August 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
  5. ↑ "Seoul, Korea Republic Of SEL". OAG Flight Guide Worldwide. 27 (2). Luton, United Kingdom: OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited: 1186–1190. August 2025. ISSN 1466-8718. OCLC 41608313.
  6. ↑ Liu, Jim. "Peach schedules new routes from Tokyo in August 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  7. ↑ "Taipei, Chinese Taipei TPE". OAG Flight Guide Worldwide. 27 (2). Luton, United Kingdom: OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited: 1253–1255. August 2025. ISSN 1466-8718. OCLC 41608313.
  8. ↑ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 20 February 2009.
  9. ↑ "宮崎空港 陥没は米軍の戦時中の不発弾と判明 滑走路は運用再開" [Miyazaki Airport cave-in identified as an unexploded wartime bomb from the US military; runway resumes operation]. NHK. 2 October 2024. Archived from the original on October 2, 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  10. ↑ "Runway closed at southwest Japan airport after explosion on taxiway". Kyodo News. 2 October 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  • Wikimedia Commons logo Media related to Miyazaki Airport at Wikimedia Commons
  • Miyazaki Airport Guide from Japan Airlines
  • "Current weather for RJFM". NOAA/NWS.
  • Accident history for KMI at Aviation Safety Network


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