List of the busiest airports in Japan
Rank Airport City served Region IATA / ICAO Passengers Aircraft Cargo
1 Haneda Airport Tōkyō Kantō HND/RJTT 56,402,206 256,394 769,749
2 Narita International Airport Tōkyō Kantō NRT/RJAA 27,389,915 134,496 1,932,692
3 Kansai International Airport Ōsaka Kansai KIX/RJBB 20,491,333 123,202 999,695
4 Fukuoka Airport Fukuoka Kyūshū FUK/RJFF 19,687,895 139,950 297,606
5 New Chitose Airport Sapporo Hokkaidō CTS/RJCC 18,023,450 99,770 294,132
6 Osaka International Airport Ōsaka Kansai ITM/RJOO 16,344,400 103,084 169,391
7 Naha Airport Naha Okinawa OKA/ROAH 11,233,913 113,586 206,516
8 Nagoya Airfield Nagoya Chūbu NKM/RJNA 10,889,003 119,442 190,882
9 Kagoshima Airport Kagoshima Kyūshū KOJ/RJFK 6,113,667 68,656 47,208
10 Miyazaki Airport Miyazaki Kyūshū KMI/RJFM 3,348,025 41,010 23,884
11 Hiroshima Airport Hiroshima Chūgoku HIJ/RJOA 3,326,527 21,774 32,117
12 Sendai Airport Sendai Tōhoku SDJ/RJSS 3,291,928 43,850 31,095
13 Nagasaki Airport Nagasaki Kyūshū NGS/RJFU 2,957,437 45,352 25,386
14 Kumamoto Airport Kumamoto Kyūshū KMJ/RJFT 2,717,086 30,974 29,701
15 Matsuyama Airport Matsuyama Shikoku MYJ/RJOM 2,687,327 24,612 14,357
16 Komatsu Airport Komatsu Chūbu KMQ/RJNK 2,587,710 15,670 29,364
17 Hakodate Airport Hakodate Hokkaidō HKD/RJCH 2,262,033 24,908 22,016
18 Oita Airport Ōita Kyūshū OIT/RJFO 2,059,481 16,310 17,706
19 Kōchi Airport Kōchi , Kōchi Shikoku KCZ/RJOK 1,931,804 27,080 7,892
20 Aomori Airport Aomori Tōhoku AOJ/RJSA 1,616,471 13,892 7,309
2000 final statistics
Nagoya Airfield was the main airport of Nagoya until 2005 . But after Fuji Dream Airlines designed the airport as a secondary hub the passenger traffic has commenced to increase . The 50 busiest airports in Japan in 2000 ordered by total passenger traffic , according to the MLIT reports .
Japan's busiest airports are a series of lists ranking the fifty busiest airports in the country according to the number of total passengers, and also including statistics for total aircraft movements and total cargo movements, following the official register yearly. The data here presented are provided by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), and the results are for the calendar year (as the Ministry also presents yearly results for the fiscal year). The lists are presented in chronological order starting from the latest year. The number of total passengers is measured in persons and includes any passenger that arrives, depart or travel on transit in every airport in the country. The number of total aircraft movements is estimated, measuring airplane-times and includes the departures and arrivals of any kind of aircraft in schedule or charter conditions. The number of total cargo movements in metric tonnes and includes all the movements of cargo and mail that arrives or departs from the airport.