UKB

Kobe Airport

ICAO RJBE34.6328°N 135.2240°E7 m / 22 ftLarge airport
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Kobe Airport (IATA: UKB, ICAO: RJBE) is a large airport in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It opened on 16 Feb 2006. It has one runway, 2,500 m (8,202 ft) long, asphalt. In 2024 it handled 3.6 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 2006–2006
16 FEB 2006
OpenedKobe Airport opens.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
第1ターミナルビル第2ターミナルビル
09/27085° / 265° · LIT
LENGTH2,500 m8,202 ftWIDTH61 m200 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2013–2024
2.3M
2.5M
2.4M
2.7M
3.1M
3.2M
3.4M
1.6M
1.6M
2.7M
3.4M
3.6M
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Routes

14 destinations · 3 countries
Most destinationsSkymark Airlines 8Starlux Airlines 3All Nippon Airways 2Toki Air 1Asiana Airlines 1Korean Air 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from UKB. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Kobe Airport” (revision of 18 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers3.6M (2024)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#415of 3,974 · #123 Asia · #11 JPLongest runway2,500 m8,202 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,332of 29,823 · =737 Asia · =33 JPElevation7 m22 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,097of 43,341 · =2,899 Asia · =157 JPAgeOpened 20062026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=12,221of 15,079 · =612 Asia · =85 JPRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =24 JP
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

4 channels
APPKANSAI RADAR121.150
ATISATIS128.075
TCAKANSAI TCA121.100
TWRTWR118.500