Komatsu Airport / JASDF Komatsu Air Base

ICAO RJNK36.3934°N 136.4069°E11 m / 36 ftLarge airport

Komatsu Airport / JASDF Komatsu Air Base (IATA: KMQ, ICAO: RJNK) is a large airport in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. It opened on 3 Apr 1953. It has one runway, 2,705 m (8,876 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Ishikawa Prefecture. In 2024 it handled 1.5 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1953–1953

03 APR 1953

OpenedKomatsu Airport / JASDF Komatsu Air Base opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

06T/24T056° / 236° · LIT

LENGTH2,705 m8,876 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2013–2024

2.3M

1.8M

1.7M

1.8M

644K

467K

985K

1.4M

1.5M

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Routes

10 destinations · 6 countries

Year-round8

HNDTokyo Haneda International AirportJapan · All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines318 km198 mi FUKFukuoka AirportJapan · All Nippon Airways626 km389 mi CTSNew Chitose AirportJapan · All Nippon Airways841 km523 mi ICNIncheon International AirportSouth Korea · Korean Air893 km555 mi OKANaha International AirportJapan · Japan Transocean Air1,406 km874 mi TPETaiwan Taoyuan International AirportTaiwan · Tigerair Taiwan, EVA Air1,915 km1,190 mi KHHKaohsiung International AirportTaiwan · Tigerair Taiwan2,179 km1,354 mi HKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · HK Express2,672 km1,660 mi

Cargo4

ICNIncheon International AirportSouth Korea · Cargolux893 km555 mi HKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · Cargolux2,672 km1,660 mi LUXLuxembourg-Findel International AirportLuxembourg · Cargolux9,270 km5,760 mi ORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · Cargolux10,207 km6,342 mi

Most destinationsCargolux 4All Nippon Airways 3Tigerair Taiwan 2Japan Airlines 1Korean Air 1Japan Transocean Air 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KMQ. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Komatsu Airport” (revision of 14 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers1.5M (2024)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#695of 3,974 · #203 Asia · #23 JP Longest runway2,705 m8,876 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#1,881of 29,823 · #585 Asia · #25 JP Elevation11 m36 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=39,976of 43,341 · =2,725 Asia · =139 JP AgeOpened 19532026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,935of 15,079 · =207 Asia · #33 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

5 channels

APPAPP120.100

DEPDEP120.100

GNDGND121.700

TCATCA127.950

TWRTWR118.250