Osaka International Airport , often referred to as Itami Airport , is the primary regional airport for the Kansai region of Japan, including the major cities of Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe. Classified as a first class airport, it is the airport closest to Kyoto, 36 kilometres (22 mi) southwest of Kyoto Station. Itami Airport has a small footprint, covering only 311 hectares of land.
Itami Airport
Itami Air Base around 1954
Itami Air Base entrance sign – 1957
Domestic Terminal seen in 1971, with a handful of Boeing 727s and NAMC-YS 11
Kobe is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in the Kansai region, which makes up the southern side of the main island of Honshū, on the north shore of Osaka Bay. It is part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kyoto. The Kobe city centre is located about 35 km (22 mi) west of Osaka and 70 km (43 mi) southwest of Kyoto.
Image: Kobe Port Tower and Maritime Museum, November 2016
Image: The old settlement hall of no 15 01 1920
Image: Hyogo prefectural museum of art 08s 3200
Image: Chang'an gate (Nankinmachi, Kobe)
