JAPAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, ISE BAY, TOKONAME, JAPAN

New Airport Technology

The new airport is being constructed on an artificial offshore island created by a land reclamation scheme started in 2001 and completed by spring of 2003. The land was reclaimed by building concrete revetments on the seabed and then building the island up with hundreds of tons of rock and sandstone landfill. The seabed is particularly shallow and stable in this region, allowing this to be achieved. The island was constructed by Penta-Ocean Construction Co., Ltd. The new island is designed to allow initially one large runway of dimensions 3,500m x 60m. Future plans include the option to extend the initial runway to 4,000m and build another runway of identical dimensions adjacent to it. The new airport will occupy an area of 4.3km x 1.9km.

Since the Central Japan International Airport will be an offshore airport, only water areas will be affected by aircraft noise, thus enabling aircraft to land and take-off 24 hours a day without time constraints.