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{{Short description|Public airport in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan}}
{{Infobox airport
| name                = Hakodate Airport
| nativename-a        = {{nobold|{{Nihongo2|函館空港}}}}
| nativename-r        = {{small|''Hakodate Kūkō''}}
| image               = Hakodate Airport Hokkaido Japan06s3.jpg
| image-width         = 280
| IATA                = HKD
| ICAO                = RJCH
| WMO                 = 47488
| type                = Public
| owner               = [[Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism]]
| operator            = {{Ill|Hokkaido Airports|ja|北海道エアポート}}
| city-served         = [[Hakodate]], [[Hokkaido]], Japan
| location            = 
| elevation-f         = 112
| coordinates         = {{coord|41|46|12|N|140|49|19|E|region:JP-01|display=it}}
| pushpin_map         = Japan Hokkaido#Japan
| pushpin_label       = '''HKD'''/RJCH
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Hokkaidō##Location in Japan
| website             = [http://www.airport.ne.jp/hakodate/en/ English website]
| metric-rwy          = y
| r1-number           = 12/30
| r1-length-m         = 3,000
| r1-surface          = [[Asphalt concrete|Asphalt]]/[[concrete]]
| stat-year           = 2015
| stat1-header        = Passengers
| stat1-data          = 1,772,052
| stat2-header        = Cargo (metric tonnes)
| stat2-data          = 8,433
| stat3-header        = Aircraft movement
| stat3-data          = 18,129
| footnotes           = Source: Japanese [[Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Hakodate Airport|url=http://www.mlit.go.jp/common/001141840.pdf|publisher=Japanese [[Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism]]|access-date=7 January 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021205147/http://www.mlit.go.jp/common/001141840.pdf|archive-date=21 October 2016}}</ref>
}}

{{nihongo|'''Hakodate Airport'''|函館空港|Hakodate Kūkō}} {{Airport codes|HKD|RJCH}} is an [[airport]] located {{convert|7.6|km|abbr=on}} east<ref name="AIP">[https://aisjapan.mlit.go.jp/ AIS Japan] {{webarchive|url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20160517110850/https://aisjapan.mlit.go.jp/ |date=2016-05-17 }}</ref> of [[Hakodate Station]] in [[Hakodate]], a city in [[Hokkaidō]], [[Japan]]. It is owned by the [[Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism]] and operated by {{Ill|Hokkaido Airports|ja|北海道エアポート}}.

== History ==
Hakodate airport opened in 1961 with a single, 1,200-meter runway. A new terminal upgrade and runway extension to 2,000 m became operational in 1971. The runway was extended further to 2,500 m in 1978 and to 3,000 m in 1999. A new terminal building opened in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dgraph.co.jp/rjch_facility.html |script-title=ja:日本の空港/VFRパイロットの飛行場・ヘリポート情報誌！|website=www.dgraph.co.jp|language=ja|access-date=2017-04-17}}</ref>

On September 6, 1976, Soviet pilot [[Viktor Belenko]] defected to the West by landing a [[MiG-25 Foxbat]] aircraft at Hakodate Airport.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160905-the-pilot-who-stole-a-secret-soviet-fighter-jet|title=The pilot who stole a secret Soviet fighter jet|last=Dowling|first=Stephen|date=2016-09-05|website=BBC|access-date=2017-04-17}}</ref>

On June 21, 1995, [[All Nippon Airways Flight 857]], a scheduled [[Boeing 747]] flight from Tokyo to Hakodate, was hijacked by Fumio Kutsumi, a Tokyo bank employee armed with a screwdriver. Kutsumi claimed to be acting on behalf of [[Aum Shinrikyo]] cult group leader [[Shoko Asahara]]. The aircraft landed in Hakodate and stayed on the runway overnight for 15 hours before riot police stormed the aircraft at dawn and freed the passengers.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/06/22/japanese-police-storm-plane-grab-hijacker/e040868b-c831-43e8-a7f9-29fbdc863821/|title=JAPANESE POLICE STORM PLANE, GRAB HIJACKER|last=Reid|first=T. R.|date=1995-06-22|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2017-04-17|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

==Airlines and destinations==
[[File:Hakodate Airport Hokkaido Japan28s3.jpg|thumb|The terminal interior]]
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{{Airport-dest-list
| [[Air Do]] | [[Chubu Centrair International Airport|Nagoya–Centrair]], [[Haneda Airport|Tokyo–Haneda]]
| [[All Nippon Airways]] | [[Itami Airport|Osaka–Itami]], [[Haneda Airport|Tokyo–Haneda]]
| [[All Nippon Airways|ANA Wings]] | [[Itami Airport|Osaka–Itami]], [[New Chitose Airport|Sapporo–Chitose]]<br />'''Seasonal:''' [[Chubu Centrair International Airport|Nagoya–Centrair]]
| [[Hokkaido Air System]] | [[Okushiri Airport|Okushiri]], [[Okadama Airport|Sapporo–Okadama]]
| [[Hong Kong Airlines]] | '''Suspended:''' [[Hong Kong International Airport|Hong Kong]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Hong Kong Airlines NW23 Network Additions – 11OCT23 |url=https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/231011-hxnw23 |website=Aeroroutes |access-date=11 October 2023}}</ref>
| [[J-Air]] | [[Itami Airport|Osaka–Itami]]
| [[Japan Airlines]] | [[Haneda Airport|Tokyo–Haneda]]| [[Starlux Airlines]] | [[Taoyuan International Airport|Taipei–Taoyuan]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Starlux Adds Taipei – Hakodate and Taichung – Macau in February and March 2024 |url=https://knaviation.net/starlux-new-routes-q1-2024/ |website=KN Aviation |access-date=26 December 2023}}</ref>
| [[Tigerair Taiwan]] | [[Taoyuan International Airport|Taipei–Taoyuan]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Tigerair Taiwan NS23 Japan Operations – 10MAR23 |url=https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/230310-itjp |website=Aeroroutes |access-date=10 March 2023}}</ref>
||
}}

==Statistics==
{{Airport-Statistics|iata=HKD}}
==Ground transportation==
Scheduled buses operate to [[Hakodate Station]] and the Onuma [[Prince Hotel]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://airport.ne.jp/hakodate/access.shtml |script-title=ja:HAKODATE Airport 函館空港ビルデング株式会社【アクセス】|website=airport.ne.jp|language=ja|access-date=2017-04-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202025605/http://airport.ne.jp/hakodate/access.shtml|archive-date=2017-12-02|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==In popular culture==
*The animated film ''[[Detective Conan: Magician of the Silver Sky]]'' depicts an emergency landing at the airport.

== References ==
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==External links==
{{Commons category inline|Hakodate Airport}}
*{{in lang|en}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20171202202613/http://www.airport.ne.jp/hakodate/en/ Hakodate Airport Terminal Building Co., Ltd.]
*[http://www.jal.co.jp/en/dom/airport/japan/hkd/hkd_00.html Hakodate Airport Guide] from [[Japan Airlines]]
* {{NWS-current|RJCH}}
* {{ASN|HKD}}

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[[Category:Airports in Hokkaido]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Hakodate]]
[[Category:Airports established in 1961]]
[[Category:1961 establishments in Japan]]
[[Category:Transport in Hakodate]]