Toyama Airport 富山空港 Toyama Kūkō
IATA:TOY ICAO:RJNT
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Toyama Prefecture
Location	Toyama,Toyama Prefecture,Japan
Opened	August 20, 1963; 62 years ago (1963-08-20)
Elevation AMSL	127 ft / 39 m
Coordinates	36°38′54″N137°11′15″E / 36.64833°N 137.18750°E /36.64833; 137.18750
Website	www.toyama-airport.jp
Map
TOY/RJNT Location in Japan Show map of Toyama Prefecture TOY/RJNT TOY/RJNT (Japan) Show map of Japan
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 02/20 2,000 6,562 Asphalt/Concrete
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 736,740 Cargo (metric tonnes) 1,450 Aircraft movements 9,262
Source: JapaneseMinistry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism[1]

Toyama Airport (富山空港,Toyama Kūkō) (IATA:TOY,ICAO:RJNT) is anairport located in the city ofToyama,Toyama Prefecture,Japan. It services are primarily domestic flights and international flights to China and Taiwan: however, seasonal international charter flights also service Toyama from April to June.

Located approximately 7 km (4.3 mi) south of central Toyama,^[2] the airport is part of theTateyama Kurobe Alpine Route and is the closest international airport toUNESCO World Heritage Site ofGokayama. As the airport has convenient access to downtown Toyama and various highways, the airport also serves a wide area of theJōetsu region ofNiigata Prefecture andHida region ofGifu Prefecture.

The airport opened on August 20, 1963, with regularly scheduled flights byAll Nippon Airways toTokyo Haneda Airport using aFokker F-27. This was replaced by aNAMC YS-11 in 1970. In 1984, the runway was lengthened from 1200 to 2000 meters to accommodate jet operations and a new terminal building was completed. An international terminal was completed in March 1993,Asiana andAeroflot becoming the first international airlines to schedule service to the airport fromSeoul andVladivostok respectively. In late 1990s,Aeroflot terminated the link to Vladivostok, whileAsiana retained it.

It is the only airport built on a riverbed in Japan, and the runways and aprons are located on the riverbed on the right bank of theJinzū River. The terminal building is outside the river, and the boarding bridge built across the levee is Japan's longest. Because of the location of the riverbed, it was not possible to completely install theinstrument landing system, which restricts operations in poor visibility due to heavy snow in winter. In addition, physical restrictions are severe, as there is little space on the site and taxiways can not be made to both ends of the runway (there is no parallel taxiway, and planes must made takes a U-turn on a turning pad at the end of the runway for takeoff. The number of departure and arrival flights is limited to 15 per day according to the local agreement. Although plans to relocate the airport, possibly to an offshore location, were discussed, traffic to the airport has decreased dramatically with the opening of theHokuriku Shinkansen in March 2015.

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