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Chubu Centrair International Airport (RJGG) is Japan's major international gateway for the Nagoya region, built on an artificial island in Ise Bay south of the city. It offers a single long instrument runway with full ILS coverage, making it a straightforward if busy destination for airliner-focused simulator flights.
Chubu Centrair International Airport, generally known as Centrair, serves the Chukyo metropolitan area centred on Nagoya, the third-largest urban region in Japan. Built on a purpose-made island in Ise Bay, it opened in 2005 to replace the older Nagoya Airfield for scheduled traffic and to give the region's manufacturing economy, including Toyota and Mitsubishi, a dedicated 24-hour capable gateway. For the simulator pilot it is an interesting long-haul and domestic hub with a single very long runway, full ILS, and an approach over open water that gives good visual references on the final segments.
The airport sits on an artificial island in Ise Bay, about 35 kilometres south of Nagoya, in Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. As a major international airport it lies within controlled airspace with its own approach, tower and departure services, and it is surrounded by open water on most sides, simplifying the visual approach environment compared with inland Japanese fields.
Centrair has one physical runway, 18/36, orientated almost due north-south, of 11456 feet in length with a hard surface. Both directions are lit and equipped with ILS, and the runway is aligned along the length of the artificial island on which the airport stands.
Pilots can expect the following frequencies: Approach 121.05 MHz, ATIS 121.075 MHz, Clearance Delivery 121.85 MHz, Departure 120 MHz, Ground 121.8 MHz, Radar 125.5 MHz, TCA 119.25 MHz, and Tower 118.85 MHz. Both runway ends are served by ILS, supporting instrument approaches in the low-visibility conditions that can affect the bay area.
Centrair was constructed on a reclaimed island in Ise Bay as a replacement for the older Nagoya Airport, whose location in a residential part of Aichi Prefecture had come to limit both flight numbers and operating hours. Construction began in August 2000 with a budget of around 768 billion yen, with Penta-Ocean Construction as a major contractor, and the airport opened on 17 February 2005, in time to serve visitors to Expo 2005. On opening it took over almost all commercial services previously handled by Nagoya Airport, including its IATA code NGO, and relieved Tokyo and Kansai of some cargo traffic. In the years that followed several carriers, including American Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Continental, United, Emirates, EVA Air and Northwest Airlines, either withdrew or altered services from the field, while others such as HK Express and Finnair later resumed operations. An exhibition centre, the Aichi International Exhibition Center, opened on the airport island in August 2019.
Centrair remains the principal international airport for the Nagoya region, hosting a substantial mix of domestic and international scheduled and cargo services and acting as a focus city for All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines and Polar Air Cargo, as well as an operating base for Jetstar Japan. The single runway continues to handle both categories of traffic, with instrument approaches available at both ends given the ILS fit.