AviatDataSendai Airport SDJ / RJSS
Sendai (Natori), Miyagi · Japan · Sendai International Airport Co., Ltd. (SIAC) — private concessionaire since July 1, 2016 under a 30-year concession, Japan's first privatization of a state-managed airport; SPC incorporated Nov 2, 2015 and led by the Tokyu group (Tokyu Corporation 42%, Tokyu Land Corporation 9%, Tokyu Agency/Tokyu Construction/Tokyu Community 1% each — 54% combined), alongside Maeda Corporation (30%) and Toyota Tsusho Corporation (16%)
4.0Mpax · 2025
Limited hoursInternational · customs & immigrationJet A-1
ICAO / IATARJSS / SDJ
OperatorSendai International Airport Co., Ltd. (SIAC) — private concessionaire since July 1, 2016 under a 30-year concession, Japan's first privatization of a state-managed airport; SPC incorporated Nov 2, 2015 and led by the Tokyu group (Tokyu Corporation 42%, Tokyu Land Corporation 9%, Tokyu Agency/Tokyu Construction/Tokyu Community 1% each — 54% combined), alongside Maeda Corporation (30%) and Toyota Tsusho Corporation (16%)
Coordinates38.1397°N, 140.9169°E
Elevation6 ft · 2 m
Time zoneJST (UTC+9, no DST)
Passengers / yr4,000,689 (2025)
CustomsYes
Border controlYes
SchengenNo
FuelJet A-1
Bonded—
AIP referenceRJSS - AIP Japan (Japan Civil Aviation Bureau / Japan Aeronautical Information Service)
Operating hours07:30-22:00 local (extended 30 min in July 2021 from the prior 07:30-21:30); not H24 - no scheduled operations outside published hours.
TerminalsSingle passenger terminal (~43,500 sqm, opened July 1997), 3 floors with 8 jet bridges: 1F domestic/international arrivals and CIQ (customs, immigration, quarantine); 2F domestic/international departure lobby, check-in and boarding lounge; 3F restaurants, aviation-themed exhibits and a business lounge. The terminal was flooded to a depth of over 3m by the March 2011 tsunami and fully restored before the July 2016 privatization.
Runways (2)
- 09/27 · 3,000 m / 9,843 ft · 45 m wide · Asphalt · ILS ILS CAT I (LOC/GP) serves Rwy 27 only, plus RNP AR and VOR non-precision approaches also published to Rwy 27; Rwy 09 is served only by an RNP (RNAV/GNSS) approach (LNAV/VNAV) - no ILS or VOR-DME approach to Rwy 09
- 12/30 · 1,200 m / 3,937 ft · 45 m wide · Asphalt · ILS No ILS; a VOR non-precision approach is published to Rwy 30 only. Rwy 12 has no published instrument approach (visual/circling only); shorter secondary runway used mainly by GA, JCG and JASDF traffic
Airport contact
Tohoku region's largest and busiest airport, its principal international gateway, linked to central Sendai (~25 min) by the dedicated Sendai Airport Line rail spur off the Tohoku Main Line. Home base/hub for regional carrier Ibex Airlines (CRJ700) alongside JAL and ANA domestic trunk routes; international side served by EVA Air, Starlux, Tigerair Taiwan, Asiana, HK Express and Greater Bay Airlines. Single usable precision runway (09/27, ILS CAT I on Rwy 27 only, RNP-only approach to Rwy 09) plus a short secondary crosswind strip (12/30, VOR approach to Rwy 30 only, Rwy 12 visual-only); FY2025 (Apr 2025-Mar 2026) traffic of just over 4.0 million passengers was a record for the airport, driven by a 27% jump in international volume on new Taiwan (Kaohsiung)/Thailand (Bangkok) routes.
Services
Available
On request / PPR
Seasonal / ageing
Unconfirmed / not listed
Ground handling
Available · 3 providers
JAL Sky Sendai Co., Ltd.
Passenger handling for JAL Group and foreign carriers at Sendai Airport — check-in, ticketing, departure-gate boarding, and arrival baggage-lobby service; company is a dedicated JAL Group station subsidiary based at Natori, Miyagi, per JAL's own corporate page (jal.co.jp/jsdj/company).
Contact details available to subscribersYour company? Subscribe · Founding Member Price €199/yr
Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Nippon Express Co., Ltd. — Sendai Airport Branch (日本通運株式会社 仙台空港総代理事業所)
Ramp/apron ground handling for JAL Group and other carriers at Sendai, operating as JAL Group's designated airport brand-partner — baggage/cargo loading-unloading and aircraft guidance/marshalling, shift work 05:40-22:00; confirmed via Nippon Express's own Sendai job listing and JAL's brand-partner recruitment page (job-jal.com/airport-recruitment/recruit/nx-sendai.html). · 05:40-22:00
Contact details available to subscribersYour company? Subscribe · Founding Member Price €199/yr
Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Suzuyo Airport Service Co., Ltd. (株式会社鈴与エアポートサービス, SAS)
Ramp handling (load-master/LM duties, interphone operations, marshalling, sorting) and passenger handling (check-in, arrival lobby, departure gate, counter operations, door/jet-bridge operation) for domestic, international and charter flights at Sendai Airport; per SAS's own station page (sas-web.jp/airport/place/sendai).
Contact details available to subscribersYour company? Subscribe · Founding Member Price €199/yr
Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Aircraft fuel
Available
Pacific Corporation (株式会社パシフィック, K-PAC)
Into-plane aviation fuelling operator for Sendai Airport (and Fukushima Airport) — operates a company-owned storage facility with two 980KL jet-fuel tanks (~1 week's supply for Sendai), receives fuel by tanker truck under contract with 4 petroleum companies (majors not individually named), samples/tests incoming fuel and performs daily quality checks on stored fuel, and fuels aircraft ranging from general-aviation/helicopters up to large widebody jets (examples given: B767 domestic Okinawa, Honolulu and European routes); per K-PAC's own fuelling-business page (k-pac.co.jp/fueling).
Contact details available to subscribersYour company? Subscribe · Founding Member Price €199/yr
Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
De-icing
Seasonal
Suzuyo Airport Service Co., Ltd. (株式会社鈴与エアポートサービス, SAS)
SAS's own Sendai station page explicitly lists winter de-icing/snow-removal work ("冬場は防除雪氷作業も行います") as part of ramp-handling scope; Sendai (Tohoku Pacific coast) receives periodic winter snow/freezing conditions requiring this.
Contact details available to subscribersYour company? Subscribe · Founding Member Price €199/yr
Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Part-145 line maintenance
Not listed
Part-145 base maintenance
Available
JAMCO Corporation (株式会社ジャムコ)
Owns and operates an aircraft maintenance hangar at Sendai Airport (Iwanuma/Natori, Miyagi) — steel-frame hangar, ~600 sqm usable, 10m x 60m — used as JAMCO's own aircraft maintenance base, oriented toward business-jet maintenance, with maintenance-equipment rental also offered to operators doing their own work in the hangar; per JAMCO's own December 2025 news release (jamco.co.jp) and ANA HD's joint press release (anahd.co.jp). Oriented toward business-jet/GA maintenance rather than confirmed mainline heavy checks.
Contact details available to subscribersYour company? Subscribe · Founding Member Price €199/yr
Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Component shops & overhaul
Not listed
Flight catering
Not listed
Aircraft cleaning
Not listed
Ground support equipment
Not listed
Cargo handling
Available · 4 providers
Nippon Express Co., Ltd. — Sendai Airport Branch (日本通運株式会社 仙台空港総代理事業所)
Cargo/baggage handling agent at Sendai Airport for JAL Group as brand-partner (domestic air cargo division), operating from the Nippon Express Sendai Airport general agency office; unconfirmed whether this covers international freight in addition to domestic.
Contact details available to subscribersYour company? Subscribe · Founding Member Price €199/yr
Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
JAL Cargo
JAL Group's own airline cargo building/office at Sendai Airport's cargo terminal complex — confirmed as a distinct facility in Sendai International Airport Co.'s cargo-facility inventory ("airline cargo buildings" housing JAL and ANA cargo operations); handles cargo acceptance and customer-facing operations for JAL Group flights. Note: physical ramp/warehouse cargo handling for JAL at Sendai is contracted to brand-partner Nippon Express (see above), so this is not confirmed as fully self-handled labor. Office hours previously reported as 08:30 until last-flight arrival per JAL Cargo's domestic office-locator page (jal.co.jp/jp/ja/jalcargo/dom/locate) — that page could not be re-fetched (blocked), so hours are carried over unconfirmed. · 08:30-last arrival (unconfirmed this pass)
Contact details available to subscribersYour company? Subscribe · Founding Member Price €199/yr
Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
ANA Cargo
ANA Cargo's own branded air-cargo office/operations at Sendai Airport (Shimomashida, Minamiharabara, Natori), located ~5 minutes' walk from the passenger terminal; departures 06:00-21:00, arrivals/ULD rental-return 06:00-21:20, fax •••; confirmed via ANA Cargo's own location page (anacargo.jp/ja/dom/location). · 06:00-21:20
Contact details available to subscribersYour company? Subscribe · Founding Member Price €199/yr
Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Sendai International Airport Co., Ltd. (仙台国際空港株式会社, SIAC)
Airport operator self-provides the cargo-terminal infrastructure: absorbed the former Sendai Air Cargo Terminal Co. (and two other companies) on June 1, 2016 and now owns/operates the international cargo building, airline cargo buildings (housing JAL Cargo and ANA Cargo), domestic-agent building, tent warehouse, fumigation warehouse and cold-storage facilities adjacent to the passenger terminal, per Japanese Wikipedia (仙台国際空港 / 仙台空港). Reportedly also operates a bonded-warehouse (上屋) function for non-airport-origin import cargo, per logistics trade press (logistics.jp) — not.
Contact details available to subscribersYour company? Subscribe · Founding Member Price €199/yr
Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Aviation security
Available
Japan Security Support Co., Ltd. (株式会社ジェイ・エス・エス, JSS — JAL Group)
Aviation security screening at Sendai Airport — X-ray baggage screening and metal-detector checks to prevent prohibited items and unlawful acts; JAL Group provides half of JSS's capital. Recruitment materials cite roughly 82 staff on 3-shift rotations (headcount not), per JSS's own Sendai-station recruitment materials and the Sendai Airport recruitment portal (recruit.sendai-airport.co.jp).
Contact details available to subscribersYour company? Subscribe · Founding Member Price €199/yr
Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Passenger & crew transport
Available · 2 providers
Toyota Rent a Car
Car-rental counter in the Sendai Airport arrivals hall (domestic and international arrivals); confirmed as one of seven national rental brands (alongside Nissan, Orix, Nippon, TimesCar, Budget, EcoCar) with an on-airport counter per the airport's own access/rentacar page (sendai-airport.co.jp/access/rentacar.html).
Contact details available to subscribersYour company? Subscribe · Founding Member Price €199/yr
Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Nippon Rent-A-Car
Car-rental counter in the Sendai Airport arrivals hall; confirmed as one of seven national rental brands with an on-airport counter, with a dedicated Sendai-airport shop page (nipponrentacar.co.jp/shop/area/miyagi/sendaiair.html), per the airport's own access/rentacar page.
Contact details available to subscribersYour company? Subscribe · Founding Member Price €199/yr
Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Flight support
Available · 2 providers
ANA Facilities Co., Ltd. (ANAファシリティーズ株式会社)
Operates a business-jet hangar/parking (FBO-style) service at Sendai Airport in partnership with hangar-owner JAMCO since December 2025, offering indoor and outdoor BJ parking (daily to monthly) plus a maintenance-equipment lending service launched afterward; also runs a similar business-jet hangar operation at Kansai International Airport. Per ANA HD's press release (anahd.co.jp/group/pr/202512/•••.html) and JAMCO's news page.
Contact details available to subscribersYour company? Subscribe · Founding Member Price €199/yr
Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Universal Aviation (Universal Weather and Aviation)
International trip-support/FBO coordination for business aviation at Sendai (RJSS) — manages third-party ground-handling arrangements and sourcing via local ground supervisory agents, permit coordination, catering arrangement (subcontracted to Air Culinaire Worldwide) and ground transportation; dedicated Sendai location page on universalaviation.aero confirms no physical Universal Aviation staff based on-field — coordination is via trusted local agents from Universal's main FBO services office in Japan.
Contact details available to subscribersYour company? Subscribe · Founding Member Price €199/yr
Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Hotel & travel
Not listed