New Chitose Airport
New Chitose Airport (新千歳空港 Shin-Chitose Kūkō) (IATA: CTS, ICAO: RJCC), is an
airport located 2.7 NM (5.0 km; 3.1 mi) south southeast of Chitose and
Tomakomai, Hokkaidō, Japan, serving the Sapporo metropolitan area. By land
area, it is the largest airport in Hokkaidō.
It is adjacent to Chitose Air Base, a Japan Air Self-Defense Force base
which houses F-15 Eagle fighter jets, the Japanese Air Force One government
aircraft and a number of smaller emergency response aircraft and
helicopters. Chitose and New Chitose have separate runways but are
interconnected by taxiways, and aircraft at either facility can enter the
other by ground if permitted; the runways at Chitose are occasionally used
to relieve runway closures at New Chitose due to winter weather. JASDF
provides air traffic control for both facilities.
The airport has a semicircular domestic terminal with eighteen gates, and a
smaller international terminal with six gates. Operating hours for
international flights at CTS are restricted by the Japanese government in
order to avoid interference with JASDF operations at the adjacent air base.
The domestic terminal contains a 188-room hotel, the hotelcom's New Chitose
Airport. China Airlines operates its Sapporo office on the third floor of
the airport building.
The Airline Hokkaido Air System was at one time headquartered in the New
Chitose Airport terminal. Now its head office is on the property of Okadama
Airport in Higashi-ku, Sapporo.
New Chitose Airport Station is located on a spur off the Chitose Line of
Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido). Rapid service trains operate to and
from Sapporo Station, taking 36-39 minutes.
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