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Tokachi-Obihiro Airport (RJCB) serves the city of Obihiro on the Tokachi Plain of eastern Hokkaido, offering a single long instrument-equipped runway well suited to both airline and general aviation traffic. Opened in 1981 as a replacement for the older military-adjacent Obihiro Airport, it remains the region's principal gateway, with scheduled services to Tokyo-Haneda and seasonal international links to South Korea.
Tokachi-Obihiro Airport, generally known locally as Obihiro Airport, lies on the wide Tokachi Plain in eastern Hokkaido and is operated by Hokkaido Airports. It is a modest but well-equipped regional field, notable to a visiting pilot for its single very long paved runway with an ILS, a legacy of its role as a scheduled airline gateway. For simulator pilots it offers an interesting mix of open, flat farmland scenery on approach and a straightforward but respectably long runway to work with.
The airport sits on the Tokachi Plain some 13.5 nautical miles (about 25 km) south of Obihiro Station, in eastern Hokkaido, Japan. It should not be confused with the nearby Tokachi Airfield (RJCT), a Japan Ground Self-Defense Force base situated closer to Obihiro city and JGSDF Camp Obihiro, which was the site's predecessor airport before civil operations moved to the present location in 1981.
The airport has one physical runway, 17/35, some 8,167 feet long with a hard paved surface and runway lighting. Runway 35 is equipped with an ILS approach, giving pilots a reliable instrument option when arriving from the north; runway 17 is available for visual approaches from the south.
Area control is provided by Sapporo Control on 128.325 MHz, and the tower frequency is 118.7 MHz. Runway 35 is served by an ILS, supporting instrument approaches to that end of the field.
Tokachi-Obihiro Airport opened in March 1981 with an initial runway length of 2,000 metres (6,562 feet), replacing the earlier Obihiro Airport at what is now known as Tokachi Airfield. The runway was extended to its current 2,500 metres (8,202 feet) in November 1985. The predecessor site, Tokachi Airfield, has a much older lineage: it was first established in 1937 as an airfield for the Imperial Japanese Navy, passed to the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force in 1956, was redesignated Obihiro Airport in December 1964 with a 1,000-metre runway, and had that runway extended to 1,500 metres in December 1972. Civil flights ceased there in February 1981 when the new Tokachi-Obihiro Airport opened, after which the old site continued in use as a JGSDF general aviation airfield.
Tokachi-Obihiro Airport continues to handle scheduled domestic services to Tokyo-Haneda with Japan Airlines and Air Do, along with seasonal international flights to Seoul-Incheon and Cheongju operated by Aero K. The long, lit runway with an ILS on runway 35 makes it a capable diversion or destination field for a range of aircraft types in a flight simulator setting.