[2024 Niigata Airports] Travel Guide for Niigata Airport (Updated Sep)
Address:
Niigata Airport (KIJ), 3710 Matsuhamacho, Higashi Ward, Niigata, 950-0001, Japan
Niigata airport
Niigata airport is convenient for domestic flights. A few china international flights are flying from Niigata to China.
Peach, ANA, Toki, Fuji dream airlines are flying domestically everyday.
The first airport on the Sea of Japan coast of Japan was opened on an island in the Shinano River in 1929. This airport was moved to what was then the village of Matsugazakahama in 1930, and was renamed Niigata Airport.
It was requisitioned for use by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force in 1941, and came under the control of the USAAF after the end of World War II. It was returned to Japanese civilian control on March 31, 1958.