<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History of Chubu Centrair International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">Chubu Centrair serves the third largest metropolitan area in Japan, centered around the city of Nagoya. The region is a major manufacturing centre, with the headquarters and production facilities of Toyota Motor Corporation and production facilities for Mitsubishi Motors and Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation.</p>
<p class="blog-para">According to Japanese media sources, Kodo-kai, a Yakuza faction in the Yamaguchi-gumi group, earned an immense amount of money by being the sole supplier, via a front company called Samix, of dirt, rock, sand, and gravel for the airport construction project. Although several Samix executives were criminally indicted for racketeering, the prosecutions were later dropped. According to the sources, Kodo-kai had informants working within the Nagoya police who fed the organization inside information which allowed them to stay a step ahead of investigating authorities.</p>
<p class="blog-para">When Chubu Centrair opened on 17 February 2005, it took over almost all of the existing Nagoya Airport's (now Nagoya Airfield) commercial flights, and relieved Tokyo and Kansai areas of cargo shipments. As a replacement for Nagoya Airport, it also inherited its IATA airport code NGO. The airport opened in time to service the influx of visitors for Expo 2005, located near Nagoya.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Aichi Governor Hideaki Omura announced in December 2021 that two new runways were planned at the airport: a 3,290 m parallel runway to the east of the existing runway, to be completed in 2027, and a 3,500 m runway on the west side of the airport, which would replace the existing runway.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3">Ground Transportation of Chubu Centrair International Airport</h2>
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<li class="blog-li"><strong>Train:</strong> Central Japan International Airport Station, the train station for Centrair is located on the Meitetsu Airport Line operated by Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu). The fastest "&mu;Sky Limited Express" service connects the airport to Meitetsu Nagoya Station in 28 minutes. All &mu;Sky Limited Express are operating at a max speed of 120 km/h by 2000 series trains, which have all seats designated and it is required to purchase an extra 360 yen "special limited express ticket". Meitetsu Nagoya Station is adjacent to JR Nagoya Station, allowing transfers to Shinkansen bullet trains bound for not only Tokyo and Osaka but also many major cities, as well as JR, Meitetsu, and Kintetsu local trains, and the Nagoya Municipal Subway. There is a proposal for a JR line linking Centrair to Nagoya Station and the JR network through Taketoyo Line's Okkawa Station. However, there's no actual construction works have been implemented at the moment.</li>
<li class="blog-li">There's also a proposal for Aonami line linking Centrair to Nagoya Station by constructing a tunnel or bridge. Nagoya municipal government has acted the assessment of feasibility in 2019.</li>
<li class="blog-li"><strong>Bus: </strong> Centrair Limousine provides direct bus service to and from central Nagoya, Sakae, and major hotels. It is operated by a private bus company in Mie Prefecture. High-speed buses to the neighboring prefectures for 3,000 yen to Kyoto via Mie Prefecture have been operating.</li>
<li class="blog-li"><strong>Ferry:</strong> A ferry connects to the passenger terminal in Tsu &ndash; a 40-minute trip.</li>
<li class="blog-li"><strong>Car: </strong> A toll road links Centrair and the mainland.</li>
<li class="blog-li"><strong>Bicycle: </strong> Bicycles are not allowed on the Centrair Bridge toll road to the mainland. Cyclists departing the airport must either take a Meitetsu local train one stop to Rinkū Tokoname Station or a taxi across the bridge to the Rinkū Interchange north of Aeon Mall Tokoname.</li>
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