<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Sapporo International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">New Chitose opened in July 1988 to replace the adjacent Chitose Airport, a joint-use facility which had served passenger flights since 1963. The airport's IATA airport code was originally SPK. This code was later adopted as a city code to refer to both New Chitose and the smaller Okadama Airport in central Sapporo, which handles commuter flights within Hokkaido.</p>
<p class="blog-para">New Chitose became Japan's first 24-hour airport in 1994. Services between 10 PM and 7 AM are currently limited to six flights per day due to noise alleviation concerns. Four of these slots are currently used by passenger flights to Tokyo while the other two are used by cargo flights.</p>
<p class="blog-para">New Chitose previously had long-haul service to Amsterdam (KLM, 1997&ndash;2002), Cairns (Qantas, 1992&ndash;1998 and 2004&ndash;2007) and Honolulu (JALWays, 1992&ndash;2003, Hawaiian Airlines since 2012). Service to Europe resumed when Finnair launched a new weekly flight to Helsinki from 15 December 2019. Finnair was the unique company to provide direct and scheduled flights between Sapporo and Europe. International services are mainly for transporting tourists from the rest of Asia and for sightseeing and skiing. The area surrounding gates 0 through 2, on the north end of the main terminal, was a sterile area for international flights until the international terminal opened for service on March 26, 2010.,/p&gt;</p>
<p class="blog-para">Due to the airport's sharing of air traffic control with Chitose Air Base, daytime civil operations are limited to 32 takeoffs and landings per hour, and operations by certain foreign aircraft (including Chinese and Russian aircraft) are prohibited on Mondays and Thursdays. These restrictions were scheduled to be eased in March 2017. A second terminal is being built roughly doubling the existing terminal and capacity, scheduled to be complete by August 2019</p>
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<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3">Transportation from Sapporo International Airport</h2>
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<p>The means of transportation described below are available for passengers to and from Sapporo Airport:</p>
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<li class="blog-li"><strong>Train: </strong>One of the fastest ways to Sapporo city.</li>
<li class="blog-li"><strong>Subway:</strong> Green line (Namboku Line) links Sapporo city with the Airport.</li>
<li class="blog-li"><strong>Car Rental:</strong> Rent a car at Sapporo Airport. Check our search engine for further information!</li>
<li class="blog-li"><strong>Bus: </strong>Hokkaido Chuo and Hokuto Kotsu companies serve Sapporo Airport.</li>
<li class="blog-li"><strong>Taxi:</strong> 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&ndash;39 minutes and costing &yen;1,070. Travel time from Sapporo Airport to Sapporo is about an hour.</li>
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