New Tanegashima Airport

New Tanegashima Airport (新種子島空港), also known as Tanegashima Airport, is located in Nakatane, on Tanegashima, one of the Ōsumi Islands in southern Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

The original Tanegashima Airport was opened on 27 July 1962, at a site approximately 8 km southeast of the present airport. Although its runway was extended from 1000 m to 1500 m in 1973, it was not suitable to handle jet aircraft, and was closed on 16 March 2006, the day that the New Tanegashima Airport, with a 2000 m runway, was opened.