Tottori Airport

Tottori Airport 鳥取空港 Tottori Kūkō
The terminal of Tottori Airport
IATA: TTJ – ICAO: RJOR
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Tottori Airport Authority, Tottori Prefecture
Serves	Tottori, Japan
Location	Tottori, Japan
Elevation AMSL	48 ft / 15 m
Coordinates	35°31′48″N 134°09′45″E / 35.53000°N 134.16250°ECoordinates: 35°31′48″N 134°09′45″E / 35.53000°N 134.16250°E
Website	http://www.pref.tottori.lg.jp/airport/
Map
RJOR Location in Japan
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 10/28 2,000 6,562 Asphalt concrete
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 343,235 Cargo (metric tonnes) 496
Source: Japanese AIP at AIS Japan[1] Osaka Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Civil Aviation Bureau [2]

Tottori Airport (鳥取空港 Tottori Kūkō) (IATA: TTJ, ICAO: RJOR) is an airport serving the city of Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. The airport is owned and operated by the Tottori Prefecture Tottori Airport Authority (鳥取県鳥取空港管理事務所 Tottori-ken Tottori Kūkō Kanri Jimusho), and has a passenger volume of approximately 330,000 per year. The nickname is Tottori Sand Dunes Conan Airport (鳥取砂丘コナン空港 Tottori Sakyū Konan Kūkō).

History

Tottori City Airport (市営鳥取飛行場 Shiei Tottori Hikōjō), was built 500 meters (1,600 ft) south of the present airport in 1957, and had a runway 960 meters (3,150 ft) long and 30 meters (98 ft) wide. It closed in 1964. In 1967 the present-day Tottori Airport was built and opened by the prefectural government and had a runway 1,200 meters (3,900 ft) long and 30 meters (98 ft) wide. The runway was successively lengthened in 1972 to 1,500 meters (4,900 ft), in 1985 to 1,800 meters (5,900 ft), and to its present length of 2,000 meters (6,600 ft) in 1990.^[3] The runway is constructed of asphalt concrete.

Tottori Airport originally had service only to Tokyo, but the Tokyo service ceased in 1969 when the airport began flights to Osaka. The airport had service to both Osaka and Tokyo service from 1979 to 1985, but now only serves Tokyo.^[4]

Facilities

Tottori Airport operates from 7 am to 9 pm daily. The terminal building is a two story structure with an observation deck. A meeting hall, the Tottori Airport International Meeting Hall (鳥取空港国際会館 Tottori Kūkō Kokusai Kakikan), opened in 1996, is adjacent to the airport. The airport also maintains a playground outside the airport.^[5]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
All Nippon Airways	Tokyo-Haneda

All Nippon Airways is the sole air carrier at Tottori Airport. It maintains several flights to and from Tokyo Haneda per day, almost all on a fleet of Boeing 737s.^[6]

Adjacent airports

• Miho-Yonago Airport – 84 kilometers (52 mi)
• Okayama Airport – 90 kilometers (56 mi)
• Oki Airport – 104 kilometers (65 mi)
• Izumo Airport – 116 kilometers (72 mi)
• Kobe Airport – 125 kilometers (78 mi)^[7]
• Osaka International Airport – 140 kilometers (87 mi)

Ground transportation

Road

Tottori Airport is accessible on the Tottori Bypass (鳥取バイパス) of Japan National Route 9 via two interchanges of the same name: Airport Entrance (空港入口). Tottori Prefectural Route 264 serves exclusively as the ground access road to Tottori Airport and is accessible only by the two airport interchanges of the Tottori Bypass. Parking, rental car, and taxi services are available at the airport.

Rail

Unusual among airport of Japan, Tottori Airport is not served directly by an airport railway station. The nearest station is Tottoridaigaku-mae Station (鳥取大学前駅) on the Sanin Main Line of JR West approximately 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) from the airport terminal. Tottoridaigaku-mae Station is two stops (5.5 kilometers (3.4 mi)) from Tottori Station, central to the prefectural capital, which is served by both the Sanin Main Line and the Inbi Line.

Bus service

Tottori Airport is served by Hinomaru Bus Limited, which offers a connection directly to Tottori Station.

Hotels

No hotels are located at Tottori Airport. Nearby facilities are in Tottori City.

Nearby attractions

• Tottori Sand Dunes – the largest sand dune in Japan, and most visited tourist destination in Tottori Prefecture
• Lake Koyama
• Daisen – the highest mountain in the Chūgoku region which bears a strong resemblance to Mount Fuji. The peak, Kengamine, is inaccessible to hikers due to instability cause by the 2000 Tottori earthquake, but hiking from Daisen-ji to Misen Peak (1,709.4 metres (5,608 ft)) remains a popular alternative.^[8]
• Sanbutsu-ji – a Buddhist temple designated a National Treasures of Japan

References

1. AIS Japan
2. "Tottori Airport Statistics" (PDF) (Press release). Osaka Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Civil Aviation Bureau. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
3. Tottori Airport
4. 航空施設等の歩み(Japanese)
5. 空港施設案内(Japanese)
6. Current Arrivals and Departures at Tottori Airport, viewed 3/30/2012
7. Tottori Airport
8. 伯耆大山 (in Japanese). Geographical Survey Institute. 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-21.

External links

• Tottori Airport(Japanese)
• Current weather for RJOR at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for TTJ at Aviation Safety Network