UEO

Kumejima Airport

ICAO ROKJ26.3634°N 126.7138°E7 m / 23 ftMedium airport
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Kumejima Airport (IATA: UEO, ICAO: ROKJ) is a medium airport in Kumejima, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It opened on 18 Feb 1997. It has one runway, 2,000 m (6,562 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Okinawa Prefecture. In 2024 it handled 221 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1997–1997
18 FEB 1997
OpenedKumejima Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
03/21021° / 201° · LIT
LENGTH2,000 m6,562 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2013–2024
232K
243K
240K
255K
260K
263K
265K
159K
138K
187K
219K
221K
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsRyukyu Air Commuter 1Japan Transocean Air 1Japan Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from UEO. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Kumejima Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers221K (2024)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,491of 3,974 · #489 Asia · #54 JPLongest runway2,000 m6,562 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,840of 29,823 · =1,078 Asia · =56 JPElevation7 m23 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,972of 43,341 · =2,872 Asia · =154 JPAgeOpened 19972026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=10,742of 15,079 · =519 Asia · #81 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
A/GREMOTE122.700