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Narita International Airport

Greater Tokyo Area

  • IATANRT
  • ICAORJAA
42.3 million Passengers a year (2025)
Serves
Greater Tokyo Area
Operator
Narita International Airport Corporation (NAA)
Owner
Not recorded
Opened
20 May 1978
Elevation
135 ft (41 m)
Runways
3 (longest 4,000 m)
Airlines based here
All Nippon Airways, FedEx Express, Japan Airlines, Nippon Cargo Airlines, Polar Air Cargo

About the airport

Narita International Airport (Japanese: 成田国際空港, Hepburn: Narita Kokusai Kūkō; IATA: NRT, ICAO: RJAA), originally known as New Tokyo International Airport (新東京国際空港, Shin Tōkyō Kokusai Kūkō), is an international airport serving the Greater Tokyo Area. It is located approximately 60 kilometers (37 mi; 32 nmi) east of central Tokyo in Narita, Chiba. The airport covers approximately 1,137 hectares (2,810 acres) and is undergoing expansion that will increase its total area to approximately 2,300 ha (5,700 acres). The airport's development was highly controversial and was opposed by many local residents, with opposition continuing decades after its opening. The government's decision to construct the airport without the consent of many affected landowners led to the Sanrizuka Struggle, a prolonged series of protests against the airport's construction and land expropriation. The original plan called for five runways, but only two were ultimately built amid difficulties acquiring land from opposing farmers. Some privately held properties remain within the airport complex, including a farm around which one of the runways was built. The dispute has also contributed to restrictions on airport operations, including a mandatory late night curfew prohibiting aircraft operations between midnight and 6 a.m.…

This summary is adapted from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence. Passenger and runway figures come from the same source and can lag the latest annual totals, so check the figures the operator publishes for the current total.

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