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Miyakejima Airport is a small island aerodrome on Miyakejima in the Izu Islands, some 180 km south of central Tokyo, serving the island with a single short runway. It is best known among aviation enthusiasts for its enforced closure following the volcanic eruption of Mount Oyama in 2000, and its return to scheduled service in 2008. For the sim pilot it offers a compact, dramatic approach over volcanic terrain and open ocean, with connections to nearby islands.
Miyakejima Airport (ICAO: RJTQ, IATA: MYE) lies on the island of Miyakejima in Tokyo Prefecture's Izu Islands chain, and is operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. It is a modest single-runway field whose principal role is to link the island with Chofu on the Japanese mainland and with neighbouring islands such as Mikurajima and Oshima. The airport's history is inseparable from the volcanic activity of Mount Oyama, which forced a lengthy suspension of services, making it a field with a genuinely dramatic backstory for anyone planning a visit in the simulator.
The airport sits on Miyakejima, one of the Izu Islands, about 19 km east of Miyake village. The island lies roughly 180 km south of the main Tokyo conurbation, out in the Pacific, giving approaches a strongly maritime, island-hopping character with little in the way of surrounding controlled airspace complexity to contend with beyond the immediate vicinity of the field.
The airport has a single physical runway, 02/20, a hard-surfaced and lit strip of about 4,160 ft in one direction and 4,125 ft in the reciprocal, sufficient for the turboprop commuter types that serve the island. Field elevation is 62 ft. There is no ILS approach.
An air-ground (A/G) advisory frequency of 118.05 MHz (RDO) serves the airport; there is no published instrument approach or associated navaid infrastructure noted for the field.
Miyakejima Airport's modern story is dominated by the volcanic eruption of Mount Oyama on 14 July 2000, after which flights from Haneda were suspended because of dangerously high sulfuric gas concentrations in the surrounding air. The airport remained without regular Haneda services for almost eight years while gas levels were monitored; scheduled flights resumed in April 2008 once sulfuric gas readings had fallen below 0.2 ppm, restoring the island's principal air link.
Today the airport is served by New Central Airservice on routes to Chofu on the mainland, and by Toho Air Service linking Miyakejima with Mikurajima and Oshima; a helicopter service also operates via Izu Oshima. Passenger and cargo movements are modest, reflecting the airport's role as a lifeline connection for a small island community rather than a major traffic hub.
