11 March 2010

98th airports

Today, the newest airport in Japan opened in Ibaraki prefecture(茨城県). This is the 98th national airport in Japan. But there are a lot of problems...

According to the newspaper, it's difficult to get to the airport. We need to ride bus about 30 minutes from the nearest station. That's about 80km away from Tokyo. And it's easy to get to other 2 airports, Tokyo airport and Narita airport. Also, these two airports are very very useful than Ibaraki airport.

Another problem is the number of scheduled flights. Now there are only 2 scheduled flights, but one of them is not yet available until April. Now you can get to Seoul using scheduled flight. And you will be available to get to Kobe using scheduled flight from April.

Bad accessibility and few scheduled flight, these might be the trademark of Ibaraki airport.

Anyway, 61 airports in Japan couldn't meet projected demand. I heard this news yesterday. I think, there are too many airports in Japan. Don't you think so?

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