Yakushima Airport

ICAO RJFC30.3856°N 130.6590°E38 m / 124 ftMedium airport

Yakushima Airport (IATA: KUM, ICAO: RJFC) is a medium airport in Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It opened in 1963. It has one runway, 1,500 m (4,921 ft) long, asphalt. In 2024 it handled 207 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1963–1963

1963

OpenedYakushima Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

14/32134° / 314° · LIT

LENGTH1,500 m4,921 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2013–2024

163K

174K

165K

168K

186K

179K

146K

108K

116K

177K

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207K

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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

KOJKagoshima AirportJapan · Japan Air Commuter158 km98 mi FUKFukuoka AirportJapan · Japan Air Commuter356 km221 mi ITMOsaka Itami International AirportJapan · Japan Air Commuter663 km412 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KUM. From the Wikipedia article “Yakushima Airport” (revision of 25 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers207K (2024)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,523of 3,974 · #500 Asia · #57 JP Longest runway1,500 m4,921 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=6,992of 29,823 · =1,373 Asia · =87 JP Elevation38 m124 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=36,048of 43,341 · =2,208 Asia · #87 JP AgeOpened 19632026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=5,069of 15,079 · =294 Asia · =44 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

1 channels

A/GREMOTE118.650