Kansai International and Domestic Airports in Japan
関西国際空港および地方空港



A sunset over the Kansai International Airport .


Kansai International Airport is located on an artificial island in the middle of Osaka Bay, 38 km southwest of Osaka
Station. The most practical means of getting to Osaka and Kyoto is by train. All trains leave from the Kansai Airport
station across the road from the arrival-hall.


(L) Satellite view of Kansai International Airport, which is seen at the lower-right island in Osaka Bay.
The central area of Osaka is at the upper-right corner.
(R) Access to Osaka Metropolitan area, by trains (Map source: Kansai International Airport )


関西国際空港(関空)は本格的な海上空港であり、24時間運用している。JR西日本と南海電気鉄道とが運行している。
ホテル日航は関西空港に直結している。
空港内の喫煙所は2階(国内線ゲート、レストラン街)に3ヶ所、4階(国際線出発フロア)に2ヶ所ある。セキュリティ
チェツク後の国際線ウイングには3ヶ所、国内線ウイングには2ヶ所の喫煙所があるすべての喫煙所は閉鎖式で隔離されている。


A smokers' booth in the Kansai International Airport



 Matsuyama Airport 松山空港

Matsuyama Airport is the largest in Shikoku, Japan. It takes about 20 minutes from the center of the city by
a limousine bus. All restaurants and cafes are appeared to be smokers-friendly, and allows smoking inside.
A sidestream often flows out to the passage of the airport. This is one of the worst airports in view of smoking
restriction.



Matsuyama Airport Terminal Building

A smoking cafe, saying that in all seats, smoking is OK. No door is present to separate from the corridor of the airport building.
An adverse side-stream of cigarette may flow out to the terminal building.

A smoking booth at Matsuyama Airport
These photographs were taken in November 2012, by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D.,PhD.


松山空港は四国では最も大規模かつ利用者数の多い空港であり、次の高松空港と比較しておおむね2倍の利用客数がある。
松山市中心部からの交通の利便性が高い。3か所の喫煙室の他、空港内すべての飲食店で喫煙できるようである。
カフェ・ノボールは喫煙カフェとして全席でタバコが吸えることをことさら強調している。
タバコの煙の有害性を全く
意識していない業者と利用客とを、
ここ松山空港に見ることが出来る。屋内喫煙規制のない日本の姿を象徴している。



 Kagoshima Airport 鹿児島空港


Terminal building of Kagoshima Airport

Welcome greeting from Kagoshima Airport workers

Kagoshima Airport is
a local airport located in Kirishima, and the second busiest airport in Kyushu. Airport Limousine runs
between the airport and Kagoshima Chuo Station in 38 minutes.


A smoker's booth in the Kagoshima Airport
These photographs were taken in April 2012, by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D.,PhD.



 Asahikawa Airport, Hokkaido 旭川空港

Asahikawa Airport is a single-runway regional airport in Hokkaido. Another runway extension, to 2,500 m, was
completed in 1997, and the parallel taxiway opened in 1998. In 2016, plans were finalized to build a new
international terminalto the south of the existing terminal. Construction began in October 2017, and opening
is scheduled for December 2018. The existing terminal will also be expanded and renovated by September 2019.
Asahikawa Airport is accessible by bus from Asahikawa Station, Asahiyama Zoo.



JAL aircraft is landing to the Asahikawa Airport.

Animal pictures are pasted on a passenger board bridge: A direct bus service, twice a day, connecting the JAL and ANA freight from Tokyo.

(L) Exterior of Asahikawa Airport building (M) A welcome to the Asahikawa Airport sign
(R) A smoking room is placed outside of the building, near the entrance.
喫煙室は建物外部に設置されている


旭川市は、北海道中央部にある上川盆地に広がり、札幌市に次ぐ、人口33万人以上を有する北海道第二の都市である。年間
500万人以上の観光客数があり、旭川ー台北間の直行便もあり、アジアからの観光客は年々増加している。旭川市旭山動物園は、
日本最北、全国でも有数の動物園となっている。 JAL午前便とANA午後の便に接続して旭山動物園へのノンストップバスがある。




 Hakodate Airport, Hokkaido
 函館空港

Hakodate Airport is an airport located 7.6 km east of Hakodate Stationin Hakodate, a city in Hokkaido.
There are five smoking rooms in the airport, two on the first floor and three on the second floor.


Smoking rooms and a non-smoking cafe, at the Hakodate Airport, Hokkaido

A smokefree restaurant is on the third floor and a departure board at the Hakodate Airport, Hokkaido .

(L) Smoking is banned at the observation deck of Hakodate Airport.
(R) A smoking room on the first floor is located near the main entrance to the airport.
It is installed in front of the Gate 5; it exerts a health hazard to passengers waiting at a boarding gate,
and brings the third-hand smoking in the aircraft.
These photographs were taken in October 2012, by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D.,PhD.


函館空港の喫煙所は1階ツアーデスク横と、2階搭乗口5のすぐ前に設置されている。この2階の喫煙室は有害煙の漏れが顕著で、
航空機に搭乗直前に肺一杯に吸い込んだ有害煙を機内に撒き散らす。また
搭乗口5の前で出発を待つ間、ドアの開閉のその都度、
喫煙室から漏れた有害煙
で頭痛や吐き気を催す乗客も少なくない。この喫煙所は撤去すべきである。

2021年12月、フィリップ モリス ジャパンは、函館空港ビルデングと協力し、開港60周年を迎えた函館空港を“日本初”の
「たばこの煙のない国際空港」?へと一新したことを発表いたした。ただ、全面禁煙ではなく、施設内で紙巻たばこの喫煙が
認められていた喫煙所全て(6か所)を加熱式たばこ専用室に改修しただけ。屋外には葉巻たばこ用の喫煙所がある。




 Odate-Noshiro Airport大館能代空港


(L)This map shows the location of the airport. (R) This picture shows a carriage porch and the entrance for a departure passenger
.


Odate-Noshiro Airpport locates 9.6 Kms west of Odate City, Akita Prefecture, and the median point between
Aomori and Akita Airports. It is convenient to take a rent-a-car to tour around the sightseeing spots in Tohoku,
particularly at Shiragami Mountains, Towada Lake and Hachimantai Heights. There are only two flights a day,
operated by ANA, which serves between this airport and Haneda, Tokyo.



(L) Check-in counter of ANA airline (R) The only restaurant in this airport is smokefree. The poster says ' A fresh air is the delicacies.'

(L) A campaign poster of Akita
(R) Smoking room which is located before a security check, provided with an automatic bending machine for tobacco.

Smoking room that is located after a security check point.

ANA air flight and the gate to an aircraft
These photographs were taken in March 2013, by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D.,PhD.



大館能代空港は秋田県北部に位置し周囲に白神山地・十和田湖・八幡平など豊かな観光資源に恵まれた観光拠点空港である。
東京間にANAによる朝夕2便が運行されている。東北地方で利用客が最も少ない空港と言われている。
空港の喫煙所は搭乗口のすぐ前に設置されているため搭乗直前に肺一杯に吸い込んだ
有害煙を機内に撒き散らす


 Misawa Airport 三沢空港


(L) Misawa Airport Building (M) Smoking booth faced to the outside. (R) A check-in counter of Misawa Airport

JAL aircraft is just arrived in Misawa Airport.


Misawa Airporti is an airport in Misawa in the Aomori Prefecture. It shares facilities and airport codes with the
Misawa Air Base.

History:
An Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service base was established at Misawa in 1941, and nearby Lake Ogawara was
reportedly one of the locations used by the Imperial Japanese Navy to practice for the attack on Pearl Harbor due
to its shallow depth. The base was heavy bombed by the United States Navy in 1945, and subsequently occupied
by the United States after the surrender of Japan at the end of World War II.
The first Misawa Airport was opened in January, 1952, with Japan Airlines providing scheduled services to Tokyo
and Chitose Airport in Hokkaido. However, commercial operations were suspended from March, 1965 due to
pressure from the United States, citing safety and security concerns, and flight operations were transferred to
nearby JMSDF Hachinohe Air Base. Misawa
Airport reopened in May, 1975, with a new terminal building completed in 1977; the terminal was expanded and
rebuilt in 1986. Initially served by Toa Airways with McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80 aircraft to Tokyo
(Haneda), Sapporo(Chitose), and Osaka Itami, operations were upgraded to Airbus A300 aircraft after Toa
Airways became Japan Air System in 1988. These flights were taken over by Japan Airlines after its acquisition of
Japan Air System in 2002. However, with the opening of Tohoku Shinkansen to Hachinohe in December 2002,
the number of passengers has decreased and equipment changed back to the MD-80. Flights to Chitose were
discontinued in 2007.

Source: Wikipedia

As of August 2019, there are three flights to Tokyo ( Haneda ) , one flight each to Osaka ( Itami ) and Sapporo
( Okadama ), daily.


2階が出発ロビーで売店、「レストラン三沢空港」などがあるが、レストランは国内空港でも喫煙規制の面で、最悪の一つ。
喫煙席と禁煙席があるが、どちらも部分的な壁のみで仕切った同室にあり、2000年以前の
タバコ副流煙無防止の状態である。
三沢空港は米軍と共用で、米軍の管制課下にあり、1日7便との制約の下、羽田へ3便、大阪、札幌へそれぞれ1便の
定期運航がある。


Arrival to Misawa Airport 三沢空港着陸 (by Dr JayMic)
Departure from Misawa Airport 三沢空港離陸
離陸直後に日本最大規模と言われる米軍基地も放映


JAL aircraft is leaving from Misawa Airport. These pictures of the Misawa Airforce Base are quoted from a video screen taken
by Neo.
(L) Parked US Airforce aircraft and a residential area of a military personnel in the back
(R) A residential area, including condominiumis quite vast. The writer inadvertently put the camera in the overhead pin
and could not shoot.


 Memanbetsu Airport 女満別空港


(L) Exterior of Memanbetsu Airport (M) Smoking is prohibited inside, except for a smoking room. (R) Taxi and bus stop

(L) A large smoking room, which is the source to bring a harmful sidestream air, through the exhalation of smokers.
(R) Boarding gate of flights to Haneda and Sapporo

(L) JAL aircraft is leaving Memanbestu airport. (M) Aircraft is flying over Mt.Mokoto and Lake Kussharo.

Departure from Memanbestu Airport


オホーツク海沿岸の網走市から南西に約22km(バスで約30分)に位置する空港である。空港周辺地域には知床国立公園、
阿寒摩周国立公園や網走国定公園などが存在する。観光需要を中心に旅客数は着実な伸びを見せ、近年の年間旅客数は
100万人近くを推移しており、世界遺産に登録された知床へのアクセス空港として今後の利用が期待されている。


 Izumo Airport 出雲空港

There is a smoking booth on the second floor, near the boarding gate.

(L) Marriage-tie-Airport (R) Exterior of Izumo Airport:
Photographer: 663highland (Wikipedia)


出雲空港は島根県の出雲市にあり、出雲大社が縁結びの神様であることから「出雲縁結び空港」の愛称がつけられている。
島根県の東部の空運を担い、日本の三大都市圏でもある東京(羽田)、大阪(伊丹)、名古屋(小牧)と空路で結ばれている。
2階出発ロビー、搭乗口横に喫煙所がある。


 Nannki-Shirahama Airport 南紀白浜空港


Exterior and interior of Shirahama Airport

Smoking booths for on the second floor, near the boarding gate. Right picture shows a regular smoking booth.


南紀白浜温泉の温泉街を含む白浜町中心部から、南東に約1.5キロメートルの丘陵地に位置する地方管理空港で、和歌山県が
設置、管理する。和歌山県唯一の空港で、本州最南端の空港である。 2階出発ロビー、搭乗口横に2階出発搭乗口横に加熱式
タバコ専用の喫煙所、外部に通常の喫煙所がある。


 Okadama Airport, Sapporo 札幌丘珠空港


(L) Entrance to Okadama Airport (M) Air route campaign (R) Smoking room on the arrival floor

Security checkpoint

(L) Entrance to Okadama Airport (R) Airport building map

Propeller aircraft at Okadama Airport


札幌飛行場は陸上自衛隊丘珠駐屯地の飛行場であり、共用する民間施設や通称は丘珠空港 (Okadama Airport)と呼ばれる。
空港ターミナルビルは、滑走路南側に1棟あり、地上3階、地下1階建て。ボーディングブリッジは設置されていない。
利尻の他、函館、女満別、釧路、奥尻、三沢、松本などへのフライトがある。喫煙所は到着ロビーと搭乗待合室にある。


 Rishiri Airport 利尻空港


(L) Rishiri Airport building seen from runway (R) Propeller aircraft arrived the Rishiri Airport

Rishiri Airport terminal building


利尻空港は利尻島北端に位置する北海道内の最初の離島空港である。滑走路は07/25方向に1,800mである。
平行誘導路は無く、またターニングパッドも設置されていない。着陸帯の幅は150mと狭く、計器着陸には対応できない。



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