Iwakuni Kintaikyo Airport guide

Iwakuni Kintaikyo Airport is the civilian side of the Iwakuni airfield in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Honshu. It shares one 2,440 m runway with Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, and the civil area is managed under agreement by the Osaka Regional Civil Aviation Bureau. The airport sits about 2.4 km southeast of Iwakuni Station and is named after the Kintai Bridge, the five-arch timber bridge that is the town's best-known landmark.

Scheduled flights returned on 13 December 2012, when a new civilian terminal opened. International service had run from the airfield between 1952 and 1964, and the airport was then closed to airlines for almost fifty years. The terminal was designed for up to 430,000 passengers a year, and it passed 200,000 in its first seven months.

All scheduled flying is domestic. ANA connects Iwakuni with Tokyo Haneda several times a day and with Naha on Okinawa once a day. Prefectural figures put use in fiscal 2024 at 523,000 passengers, a record, with the Okinawa route carrying 90,000 of them. Hiroshima Airport, with a much wider route network, is the main alternative for travellers in the region.