Wakkanai Airport

ICAO RJCW45.4042°N 141.8010°E9 m / 30 ftMedium airport

Wakkanai Airport (IATA: WKJ, ICAO: RJCW) is a medium airport in Wakkanai, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan. It opened in 1960. It has one runway, 2,000 m (6,560 ft) long, asphalt. In 2024 it handled 183 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1960–1960

1960

OpenedWakkanai Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

08/26069° / 249° · LIT

LENGTH2,000 m6,560 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2013–2024

177K

182K

185K

190K

199K

195K

204K

67K

77K

148K

173K

183K

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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Year-round2

CTSNew Chitose AirportJapan · ANA Wings293 km182 mi HNDTokyo Haneda International AirportJapan · All Nippon Airways1,109 km689 mi

Most destinationsANA Wings 1All Nippon Airways 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from WKJ. From the Wikipedia article “Wakkanai Airport” (revision of 6 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers183K (2024)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,568of 3,974 · #518 Asia · #60 JP Longest runway2,000 m6,560 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,997of 29,823 · =1,117 Asia · =69 JP Elevation9 m30 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,403of 43,341 · =2,785 Asia · =143 JP AgeOpened 19602026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,584of 15,079 · =266 Asia · =36 JP Runways11 · 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

2 channels

A/GRDO118.300

ACCSAPPORO CON127.500