HKDRJCH

Hakodate Airport

Hakodate, Japan · Asia

Asia Asia/Tokyo

9direct destinations

10airlines

1runway

3,000 mLongest runway

1961opened

Hakodate Airport (????, Hakodate K?k?) (IATA: HKD, ICAO: RJCH) is an airport located 7.6 km (4.7 mi) east of Hakodate Station in Hakodate, a city in Hokkaid?, Japan. It is owned by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and operated by Hokkaido Airports.

Location

41.770°N, 140.822°E · 46 m s. n. m. (151 ft)

General data

CountryJapan

CityHakodate

IATA codeHKD

ICAO codeRJCH

Coordinates41.770°N, 140.822°E

Elevation46 m s. n. m. (151 ft)

Time zoneAsia/Tokyo

Runways1

Longest runway3,000 m

OperatorHokkaido Airports

Opened1961

Direct destinations9

Official website

Runways · 1

12/30

Length3,000 m9,843 ft

Width45 m148 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 3

Tower

118.350

ATIS (automatic information)

126.600

Approach

120.850Shirakami Approach

Look for a live feed on LiveATC External site; not every airport has a feed.

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 They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation.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

Hakodate Airport opened in 1961 with a single, 1,200-meter runway. A new terminal upgrade and runway extension to 2,000 m became operational in 1971. The runway was extended further to 2,500 m in 1978 and to 3,000 m in 1999. A new terminal building opened in 2005. On September 6, 1976, Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defected to the West by landing a MiG-25 Foxbat aircraft at Hakodate Airport. On June 21, 1995, All Nippon Airways Flight 857, a scheduled Boeing 747 flight from Tokyo to Hakodate, was hijacked by Fumio Kutsumi, a Tokyo bank employee armed with a screwdriver. Kutsumi claimed to be acting on behalf of Aum Shinrikyo cult group leader Shoko Asahara. The aircraft landed in Hakodate and stayed on the runway overnight for 15 hours before riot police stormed the aircraft at dawn and freed the passengers.

Airlines operating here · 10

Other airlines with direct routes

Air Do All Nippon Airways ANA Wings Hokkaido Air System J-Air Japan Airlines Jeju Air Spring Airlines Japan Starlux Airlines Tigerair Taiwan

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

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Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Hakodate Airport (HKD). Retrieved October 19, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HKD

MLA

“Hakodate Airport (HKD).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HKD. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

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Harvard

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BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_hkd,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Hakodate Airport (HKD)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HKD},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HKD}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-19},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-19}
}

Wikipedia

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