Amakusa Airport
Amakusa Airport
Amakusa Airfield (?????) is an airport 2.3 NM (4.3 km; 2.6 mi) northwest of Amakusa, Kumamoto, Japan, on the Amakusa Islands (IATA: AXJ, ICAO: RJDA) in Japan. Locals often refer to it as Amakusa Airport. It is on the northern side of the Amakusa Islands, northwest of Amakusa city. It is used by only one airline, Amakusa Airlines, which is based there.
Location
32.482°N, 130.159°E · 104 m s. n. m. (340 ft)
General data
Runways · 1
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 1
Common traffic (CTAF)
Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.
History
On September 6, 1982, the governor of Kumamoto Prefecture announced plans for a small airport during a regular press conference. On December 26, 1990, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport approved the construction of the airfield. Construction began in 1992. The first plane that landed at this airport was a DHC-8 of Amakusa Airlines on November 19, 1999. The airfield was opened for public use on March 23, 2000.
In the spring of 2000, it had round trips between Amakusa Islands and Kumamoto twice a day. Starting from December 1, 2005, the operating time was extended from (8:00 am ～ 7:00 pm) to (7:40 am ～ 8:30 pm). It now has three round trips between Amakusa Airfield and Fukuoka Airport and one round trip between Amakusa Airfield and Kumamoto Airport (also one round trip between Kumamoto Airport and Kobe Airport) per day while using the same aircraft. Since this airfield is served only by Amakusa Airlines and this airline only has one aircraft, the ATR 72 is the only regularly scheduled aircraft that uses this airfield.
Airlines operating here · 1
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Amakusa Airport (AXJ). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/AXJ
MLA
“Amakusa Airport (AXJ).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/AXJ. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Amakusa Airport (AXJ).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 15, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/AXJ.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Amakusa Airport (AXJ). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/AXJ (Accessed: 23 October 2026).
BibTeX
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author = {{Vuelopedia}},
title = {{Amakusa Airport (AXJ)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-15},
url = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/AXJ},
howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/AXJ}},
urldate = {2026-10-23},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-23}
}Wikipedia
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