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Akita Airport (RJSK/AXT) is a medium-sized regional airport southeast of Akita City in northern Honshu, serving as the main gateway to Akita Prefecture with a single long paved runway equipped with an ILS. It also hosts a Japan Air Self-Defense Force search and rescue unit, making it a mixed civil-military field of interest to visiting VFR and IFR pilots alike.
Akita Airport is the principal airport of Akita Prefecture in the Tōhoku region of northern Honshu, Japan, lying to the southeast of Akita City. It is a civil airport handling domestic scheduled services together with a Japan Air Self-Defense Force search and rescue detachment, giving the field a dual civil-military character. For a visiting pilot it offers a single long, lit runway with an ILS approach, making it a straightforward and well-equipped destination for both airline-style operations and general aviation transits.
The airport sits about 14 kilometres southeast of Akita Station, within Akita City, Akita Prefecture, in the area of the former town of Yūwa in Kawabe District. Field elevation is 299 feet and the reference point lies at 39.6156N, 140.219E.
Akita has a single physical runway, 10/28, of 8155/8156 feet with an asphalt/concrete (hard) surface. Both directions are lit, and runway 28 is equipped with an ILS, giving instrument approach capability to the field.
Air-ground and tower services are provided under the Sapporo FIR information service. The published frequencies are A/G (Sapporo Information) on 127.1 MHz and Tower on 118.6 MHz. Runway 28 carries an ILS for instrument approaches.
The original Akita Airport opened on 1 October 1961 on the Omonogawa coast of the Sea of Japan, about 20 kilometres southeast of the centre of Akita City. It began with a 1,200-metre runway, later extended to 1,500 metres in 1967 and 1,625 metres in 1969, but the site suffered from crosswinds and interference from the television transmission antennas on the nearby 123-metre Mount Omoriyama. The present-day Akita Airport opened at its current location in the former town of Yūwa, Kawabe District, on 26 June 1981, becoming the first civilian airport in the Tōhoku region with a 2,500-metre runway. In 1985 the Japan Air Self-Defense Force established a search and rescue unit at the airport, which by 2016 was equipped with UH-60J and U-125A aircraft. An international terminal opened on 5 July 1993, initially supporting scheduled flights to South Korea.
Akita Airport today handles domestic scheduled services operated by All Nippon Airways, ANA Wings, Japan Airlines, J-Air, Hokkaido Air System and Oriental Air Bridge, linking Akita with Tokyo-Haneda, Sapporo, Nagoya-Centrair and Osaka-Itami, along with some international charter activity. The Japan Air Self-Defense Force continues to base a search and rescue unit at the field. The airport's international terminal, formerly used for scheduled Korean Air services to Seoul, is presently closed to scheduled international traffic, though charter flights to destinations such as Korea, Taiwan and China have operated from the airport.