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Yamagata Airport

ICAO RJSC38.4119°N 140.3710°E108 m / 353 ftMedium airport
On the map

Yamagata Airport (IATA: GAJ, ICAO: RJSC) is a medium airport in Higashine, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. It opened in 1964. It has one runway, 2,000 m (6,560 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Yamagata Prefecture. In 2024 it handled 361 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1964–1964
1964
OpenedYamagata Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
01/19007° / 187° · LIT
LENGTH2,000 m6,560 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2013–2024
118K
188K
223K
262K
306K
340K
367K
133K
135K
266K
351K
361K
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Routes

4 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsFuji Dream Airlines 2Japan Airlines 1J-Air 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from GAJ. From the Wikipedia article “Yamagata Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers361K (2024)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,262of 3,974 · #419 Asia · #48 JPLongest 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 JPElevation108 m353 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=30,040of 43,341 · #1,669 Asia · #43 JPAgeOpened 19642026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=5,263of 15,079 · =301 Asia · #46 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

1 channels
ACCTOKYO CON118.900