Narita International Airport

Narita International Airport ( 成田国際空港 Narita Kokusai Kūkō ? ) ( IATA : NRT , ICAO : RJAA ), also known as Tokyo Narita Airport , formerly and originally known as New Tokyo International Airport ( 新東京国際空港 Shin Tōkyō Kokusai Kūkō ? ), is an international airport serving the Greater Tokyo Area of Japan . It is located approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) east of central Tokyo [4] in Chiba Prefecture , straddling the border between the city of Narita and the adjacent town of Shibayama . Narita is the predominant international airport in Japan, handling around 50% of the country's international passenger traffic and 60% of its international air cargo traffic. [5] As of 2013, Narita was the second-busiest passenger airport in Japan (after Haneda Airport in Tokyo), [6] and was the tenth-busiest air freight hub in the world. [7] Its 4,000-metre (13,123 ft) main runway shares the record for longest runway in Japan with the second runway at Kansai International Airport in Osaka . [8] Narita serves as the main international hub of Japan Airlines , All Nippon Airways and Nippon Cargo Airlines , and as a hub for low-cost carriers Jetstar Japan , Peach and Vanilla Air . It also serves as an Asian hub for Delta Air Lines and United Airlines .