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Toyama Airport lies on the outskirts of Toyama city, on the west coast of central Honshu, and is unusual in being built directly on the riverbed of the Jinzu River. It offers a single paved runway equipped with an ILS on one approach direction, handling domestic services to Tokyo and Sapporo alongside seasonal international flights to Taipei and Seoul.
Toyama Airport (ICAO: RJNT, IATA: TOY) serves the city of Toyama in Toyama Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast of Honshu. It is operated by Toyama Prefecture and is notable for being the only airport in Japan built on a riverbed, with its runway and apron situated on the right bank of the Jinzu River. For a simulator pilot it is an interesting short-field-style destination owing to its tight site constraints, lack of a full parallel taxiway, and partial ILS coverage caused by its unusual riverbed location.
The airport sits approximately 7 km south of central Toyama and forms part of the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route corridor, making it the closest airport to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Gokayama. Its convenient position gives it a catchment reaching into the Joetsu region of Niigata Prefecture and the Hida region of Gifu Prefecture. The field's location within the confines of the Jinzu River's riverbed severely limits the available land, which has shaped both the runway layout and taxiway provision.
The airport has one physical runway, 02/20, measuring 6,542 feet on a hard surface and lit for night operations. Runway 20 is equipped with an ILS; the riverbed location has made it impossible to fully install instrument landing equipment on the reciprocal direction, which restricts operations in poor visibility, particularly during heavy winter snow.
Air traffic control is provided on TWR frequency 124.3 MHz. Runway 20 offers an ILS approach; no other published navaids are noted in the available sources.
Owing to the constrained riverbed site, there is no parallel taxiway serving both runway ends, and aircraft must make a U-turn on a turning pad at the runway end before departure. A local agreement limits the airport to a maximum of 15 arrivals and departures per day, a factor that shapes traffic flow and sequencing for any pilot operating there.
Toyama Airport opened on 20 August 1963 with scheduled All Nippon Airways services to Tokyo Haneda flown with a Fokker F-27, later replaced by a NAMC YS-11 in 1970. The runway was lengthened from 1,200 to 2,000 metres in 1984 to accommodate jet operations, alongside completion of a new terminal building. An international terminal followed in March 1993, with Asiana Airlines and Aeroflot becoming the first international carriers, flying to Seoul and Vladivostok respectively; Aeroflot's Vladivostok service ended in the late 1990s while Asiana's continued. Plans to relocate the airport, possibly offshore, were discussed at various points, and traffic declined markedly after the Hokuriku Shinkansen opened in March 2015.
Toyama Airport continues to handle scheduled domestic services, including All Nippon Airways flights to Tokyo-Haneda and ANA Wings services to Sapporo-Chitose, together with seasonal international flights operated by China Airlines to Taipei-Taoyuan and T'way Air to Seoul-Incheon. Since July 2026 the airport has carried the nickname Toyama-Takayama Sushi Airport as part of an inbound tourism campaign referencing both Toyama and nearby Takayama.