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Kansai International Airport in Japan is popularly known as Osaka Airport in the international arena. You can spot an artificial island in Osaka Bay, which is off Sennan's shore in Osaka- housing Kansai International Airport. One of the richest ways of getting to Japan and the doorway to the Kansai region, this airport was truly born out of the need to meet people's demand. On one hand, Osaka International Airport located in Itami and Toyonaka, got cramped by the concrete jungle in late 20th century, on the other the New Tokyo International Airport, was forcibly built in Chiba prefecture. Thus, an urgent need to build an offshore airport on Osaka Bay, was conceived. In 1987, construction of Kansai International Airport began and in 1991, the work for the terminal started. Since its inauguration in 1994, this airport has passed through various hard times including catastrophes like earthquake in 1995 and typhoon in 1998. Features of Kansai International Airport in Japan - The present terminal being the longest airport terminal in the world, is four-storied and was designed by Renzo Piano
- The roof of the terminal looks like an airfoil so that air can circulate easily through the structure
- You will find hydrofoils plying between Kansai Airport and Awaji Island.
- The second runway is expected to function from August 2 in 2007 Airlines in Kansai International Airport in Japan Some of the airlines operating to and fro, are- International carriers - Air Canada (Vancouver)
- Asiana Airlines (Busan, Jeju, Seoul-Incheon)
- China Southern Airlines (Dalian, Guangzhou, Shanghai-Pudong, Shenyang)
- Continental Airlines
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- Korean Air (Busan, Jeju, Seoul-Incheon)
- Malaysia Airlines (Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur)
- Northwest Airlines (Detroit, Guam, Honolulu, Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan)
- Qatar Airways (Doha)
- Shanghai Airlines (Shanghai-Pudong)
- Thai Airways International (Bangkok, Manila, Phuket)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
- United Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, Honolulu, San Francisco)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air India (Delhi, Mumbai, Hong Kong)
- Thai Airways International (Bangkok, Manila, Phuket) Domestic carriers - All Nippon Airways (Fukuoka, Goto Fukue, Hakodate, Ishigaki, Kagoshima, Memanbetsu, Miyazaki, Okinawa, Sapporo Chitose, Tokyo-Haneda, Wakkanai)
- All Nippon Airways (Matsuyama, Miyakojima, Tokyo-Haneda)
- Japan Airlines (Akita, Aomori, Asahikawa, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Hakodate, Kushiro, Memambetsu, Obihiro, Okinawa, Sapporo Chitose, Tokyo-Haneda)
- Japan Transocean Air (Ishigaki, Okinawa) How to Reach Kansai International Airport in Japan - West Japan Railway (JR-West) and Nankai Electric Railway along Sky Gate Bridge R connects the airport to Rinku Town and the mainland
Kansai Airport Transportation Enterprise and other bus services give - Airport Limousines - from Wakayama, Osaka Station, Sannomiya Station, Universal Studios in Japan, Itami Airport, Nara and Kyoto to the airport.
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