IATA: KIX – ICAO: RJBB
Summary
Airport type		Public,Kansai International Airport (関西国際空港, Kansai Kokusai Kūkō) is an international airport located on an artificial island in the middle of Osaka Bay, off the shore of Sennan district of Osaka, Japan. It is colloquially known as Osaka Airport in English, and as 関空 (Kankū, 関空) in Japanese. During FY 2005, KIX had 112,579 aircraft movements, of which 72,251 were international, and 40,328 were domestic. The total number of passengers was 16,428,399 of which 11,139,336 were international, and 5,289,063 were domestic. Freight volume was at 843,368 tonnes total, of which 800,555 t were international, and 42,813 t were domestic.
Operator		Kansai International Airport Co., Ltd.
Serves		Osaka
Location		Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Hub for		All Nippon Airways Japan Airlines Nippon Cargo Airlines
Fact.		Opened on September 4, 1994, the airport serves as a hub for several airlines such as All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, and Nippon Cargo Airlines. It is the international gateway for Japan
Coordinates
Website		www.kiac.co.jp
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
06R/24L	3,500	11,483	Asphalt concrete
06L/24R	4,000	13,123	Asphalt concrete
Statistics (FY2006)
Aircraft Movements			116,475
Passenger Movements			16,689,658
Freight Volume			802,162 t

http://www.kansai-airport.or.jp/en/index.asp

DSp Pictures
Year	Minolta		Spot location
Year	Film	Scan	Spot location
2000			Inside the airport (transit aera) + monorail

You can see about Osaka Airport on my web :
Year	Sony	1) Video DSp > Flying AirCalin to Osaka
Year	VHS	1) Video DSp > Flying AirCalin to Osaka
2000

Web information :

In the 1960s, when the Kansai region was rapidly losing trade to Tokyo, planners proposed a new airport near Kobe and Osaka. Osaka International Airport, located in the densely-populated suburbs of Itami and Toyonaka, was surrounded by buildings; it could not be expanded, and many of its neighbors had filed complaints because of noise pollution problems.

After the protests surrounding New Tokyo International Airport (now Narita International Airport), which was built with expropriated land in a rural part of Chiba Prefecture, planners decided to build the airport offshore. The new airport was part of a number of new developments to revitalize Osaka, which had been losing economic and cultural ground to Tokyo for most of the century.

Initially, the airport was planned to be built near Kobe, but the city of Kobe refused the plan, so the airport was moved to a more southerly location on Osaka Bay. There, it could be open 24 hours per day, unlike its predecessor in the city. Local fishermen were the only group to protest, but they were silenced by hefty compensation packages

Osaka - Kansai (KIK/RJBB) Japan

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