Shimojishima Airport

ICAO RORS24.8267°N 125.1450°E17 m / 54 ftMedium airport

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

109K

110K

203K

320K

433K

471K

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Routes

10 destinations · 4 countries

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.

Airlines

5 airlines · destinations from SHI

Passenger5

BCSkymark Airlines4 GKJetstar Japan2 JXStarlux Airlines2 UOHK Express1 LJJin Air1

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from SHI. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers471K (2024)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,140of 3,974 · #364 Asia · #45 JP Longest runway3,000 m9,842 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,325of 29,858 · =389 Asia · =12 JP Elevation17 m54 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=39,021of 43,403 · =2,572 Asia · #124 JP AgeOpened 19732026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=6,831of 15,079 · =351 Asia · =59 JP Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =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