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Hachijojima Airport sits on the small volcanic island of Hachijojima in the southern Izu Islands, roughly 290 km south of central Tokyo, and is the island's only fixed-wing gateway. Operated by the Tokyo Municipal Government, it handles daily jet service from Haneda alongside inter-island helicopter flights, and its single instrument-equipped runway makes it a manageable but characterful destination for a simulator pilot exploring Japan's outer islands.
Hachijojima Airport is a small regional field on Hachijojima, the largest of the southern Izu Islands, operated by the Tokyo Municipal Government. It exists primarily to link the island with Tokyo–Haneda and with two even smaller neighbouring islands by helicopter, and for a sim pilot it offers an interesting mix of a single long paved runway, genuine ocean approaches, and a compact island setting.
The airport lies on Hachijojima in the southern Izu Islands, part of Tokyo Prefecture, well out into the Pacific to the south of the main Japanese islands. It is the only airport serving the island and sits close to the coast, with terrain associated with the island's volcanic peaks nearby.
The airport has a single physical runway, 08/26, measuring approximately 6,515 feet and surfaced in hard-standing (asphalt), with lighting on both ends. Runway 26 is equipped with an ILS, giving an instrument approach from that direction.
Air-to-ground communication is provided on 118.7 MHz, using the callsign RDO. Runway 26 has an ILS approach available for pilots arriving from that direction.
An airfield was first established on Hachijojima in 1926 by the Imperial Japanese Navy. It passed into civilian control in 1954 and came under management by the local island authorities. Scheduled airline service began in 1955, when Fujita Airlines started flights between Hachijojima and Haneda, later extending to Komaki Airport in Nagoya. The airport has had a troubled early aviation history: on 30 April 1963 an All Nippon Airways DC-3 crashed on landing with no fatalities but was written off, and on 17 August 1963 a Fujita Airlines DH-115 Heron crashed into Mount Hachijo-Fuji shortly after takeoff, killing all 19 aboard; this accident led directly to Fujita Airlines being merged into All Nippon Airways. From 2000 ANA's subsidiary Air Nippon flew the route with a dolphin-liveried Boeing 737-400 as part of a tourism promotion, later switching to a 737-500 and then an Airbus A320. Flights to Oshima Airport were discontinued in 2009.
Today the airport is served daily by All Nippon Airways using Boeing 737 or Airbus A320 aircraft on the Haneda route, making it the island's principal air link to Tokyo. Toho Air Service operates helicopter flights from Hachijojima to the nearby islands of Aogashima and Mikurajima, connecting communities too small to support fixed-wing services.