KUMRJFC

Yakushima Airport

Yakushima, Japan · Asia

Asia Asia/Tokyo

3direct destinations

1airlines

1runway

1,500 mLongest runway

1963opened

Yakushima Airport (?????, Yakushima K?k?) (IATA: KUM, ICAO: RJFC) is an airport located on the island of Yakushima in Kumage District, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It lies by the coast, between the towns of Anb? and Miyanoura.

Location

30.386°N, 130.659°E · 38 m s. n. m. (124 ft)

General data

CountryJapan

CityYakushima

IATA codeKUM

ICAO codeRJFC

Coordinates30.386°N, 130.659°E

Elevation38 m s. n. m. (124 ft)

Time zoneAsia/Tokyo

Runways1

Longest runway1,500 m

Opened1963

Direct destinations3

Runways · 1

14/32

Length1,500 m4,921 ft

Width45 m148 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

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

Radio frequencies · 1

Common traffic (CTAF)

118.650REMOTE

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 They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation.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

The airport was opened in 1963 with an 1100-meter runway. The runway was extended to 1200 meters in 1975 and to 1500 meters in 1976. The runway was hardened in 2004 so as to allow DHC-8-400 aircraft to operate.

A further extension to 2000m has been approved, which will allow jet aircraft to operate. The master plan and environmental assessment for the extension are to be prepared in 2023.

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism announced in April 2024 that it had adopted the project to extend the runway to 2,000m starting this fiscal year.

Airlines operating here · 1

Other airlines with direct routes

Japan Air Commuter

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

Photo: Snap55 at Japanese Wikipedia · CC BY 3.0 · view original

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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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026

APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Yakushima Airport (KUM). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/KUM

MLA

“Yakushima Airport (KUM).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/KUM. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

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Harvard

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BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_kum,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Yakushima Airport (KUM)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/KUM},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/KUM}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-23},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-23}
}

Wikipedia

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