Hakodate Airport

Hakodate Airport (函館空港, Hakodate Kūkō) (IATA: HKD, ICAO: RJCH) is an airport located 7.6 km (4.7 mi) east^[2] of Hakodate Station in Hakodate, a city in Hokkaidō, Japan. It is owned by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and operated by Hokkaido Airports [ja].

Hakodate Airport 函館空港 Hakodate Kūkō
IATA: HKD ICAO: RJCH WMO: 47488
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Operator	Hokkaido Airports [ja]
Serves	Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan
Elevation AMSL	112 ft / 34 m
Coordinates	41°46′12″N 140°49′19″E
Website	English website
Map
HKD/RJCH Location in Hokkaidō Show map of Hokkaido HKD/RJCH Location in Japan Show map of Japan
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 12/30 3,000 9,843 Asphalt/concrete
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 1,772,052 Cargo (metric tonnes) 8,433 Aircraft movement 18,129
Source: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism[1]

History

Hakodate airport opened in 1961 with a single, 1,200-meter runway. A new terminal upgrade and runway extension to 2,000 m became operational in 1971. The runway was extended further to 2,500 m in 1978 and to 3,000 m in 1999. A new terminal building opened in 2005.^[3]

On September 6, 1976, Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defected to the West by landing a MiG-25 Foxbat aircraft at Hakodate Airport.^[4]

On June 21, 1995, All Nippon Airways Flight 857, a scheduled Boeing 747 flight from Tokyo to Hakodate, was hijacked by Fumio Kutsumi, a Tokyo bank employee armed with a screwdriver. Kutsumi claimed to be acting on behalf of Aum Shinrikyo cult group leader Shoko Asahara. The aircraft landed in Hakodate and stayed on the runway overnight for 15 hours before riot police stormed the aircraft at dawn and freed the passengers.^[5]

Airlines and destinations

The terminal interior

Airlines	Destinations
Air Do	Nagoya–Centrair, Tokyo–Haneda
All Nippon Airways	Osaka–Itami, Tokyo–Haneda Seasonal: Nagoya–Centrair[citation needed]
ANA Wings	Sapporo–Chitose
Hokkaido Air System	Okushiri, Sapporo–Okadama
J-Air	Osaka–Itami
Japan Airlines	Tokyo–Haneda
Starlux Airlines	Taipei–Taoyuan[6]
Jeju Air	Seoul–Incheon[7]
Tigerair Taiwan	Taipei–Taoyuan[8]

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at HKD airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transportation

Scheduled buses operate to Hakodate Station and the Onuma Prince Hotel.^[9]

In popular culture

• The animated film Detective Conan: Magician of the Silver Sky depicts an emergency landing at the airport.