Haneda airport handles almost all domestic flights to and from Tokyo, while Narita International Airport handles the vast majority of international flights. In 2010, a dedicated international terminal was opened at Haneda airport in conjunction with the completion of a fourth runway (see Haneda airport map). This allowed for a dramatic increase in international flights going to Haneda, which previously had only "scheduled charter" flights to Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taipei. The Japanese government plans to further expand Haneda international role in the future.

 

Haneda airport handled 64,211,074 passengers in 2010. By passenger throughput, Haneda airport was the second busiest airport in Asia and the fifth busiest in the world, after Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Beijing Capital Airport, Chicago O'Hare Airport, and London Heathrow Airport. With Haneda airport and Narita combined Tokyo has the third busiest city airport system in the world, after London and New York City. Haneda airport is the primary base of Japan two major domestic airlines, Japan Airlines (Terminal 1) and All Nippon Airways (Terminal 2), as well as low-cost carriers Hokkaido International Airlines, Skymark Airlines, Skynet Asia Airways, and StarFlyer as its mentioned in Haneda airport map. It is able to handle 90 million passengers per year following its expansion in 2010.

 

Haneda airport (羽田飛行場 Haneda Hikōjō?) first opened in 1931 on a small piece of bayfront land at the south end of today airport complex. Haneda airport was Japan largest civil airport at the time it was constructed, and took over from the army air base at Tachikawa as the main operating base of Japan Air Transport, then the country flag carrier (see Haneda airport map). During the 1930s, Haneda airport handled flights to destinations in Japan, Korea and Manchuria. In 1939, Haneda airport first runway was extended to 800 m and a second 800-m runway was completed.