SHI

Shimojishima Airport

ICAO RORS24.8267°N 125.1450°E17 m / 54 ftMedium airport
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Shimojishima Airport (IATA: SHI, ICAO: RORS) is a medium airport in Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It opened in Jul 1973. It has one runway, 3,000 m (9,842 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Okinawa Prefecture. In 2024 it handled 471 thousand passengers.

Timeline

3 events · 1973–2002
JUL 1973
OpenedShimojishima Airport opens.
30 MAY 1988
Disaster1988 Shimojijima All Nippon Airways hard landing.
26 JUN 2002
DisasterAll Nippon Airways Flight 8254.
From Wikidata and WikipediaEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
17/35166° / 346° · LIT
LENGTH3,000 m9,842 ftWIDTH61 m200 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2009–2024
898
105
3
25
3
27
109K
110K
203K
320K
433K
471K
091015161718192021222324

Routes

10 destinations · 4 countries
Most destinationsSkymark Airlines 4Starlux Airlines 2Jetstar Japan 2HK Express 1Jin Air 1

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers471K (2024)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,140of 3,974 · #365 Asia · #45 JPLongest runway3,000 m9,842 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,324of 29,823 · =390 Asia · =12 JPElevation17 m54 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=38,965of 43,341 · =2,578 Asia · #124 JPAgeOpened 19732026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=6,834of 15,079 · =352 Asia · =59 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

4 channels
APPAPP120.300
DEPDEP125.000
GNDGND121.700
TWRTWR118.300