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title: "CTS — New Chitose Airport, Sapporo · Orbit"
description: "New Chitose Airport (CTS/RJCC) serves Sapporo, Japan. Opened 1988, 24 million passengers in 2024, 43 km from Sapporo. Map, website and distances to 1 destination."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/cts
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Sapporo · Japan · Asia

# CTS — New Chitose

New Chitose Airport serves Sapporo, Japan, 43 km from the city centre, and sits at 42.8°N, 141.7°E. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**IATA**
CTS
the code on your bag tag

**ICAO**
RJCC
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1988
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
24M
in 2024

## History & name

New Chitose Airport opened in 1988 and is operated by Hokkaido Airports. Located 43 km from Sapporo at an elevation of 82 feet, it has two runways of up to 3,000 m and handled 24 million passengers in 2024.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%5FChitose%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q908296)

## At a glance

**Full name**
New Chitose Airport

**Serves**
Sapporo, Japan

**City centre**
43 km from Sapporo

**Opened**
1988

**Operator**
Hokkaido Airports

**Passengers**
24 million in 2024

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 3,000 m

**Elevation**
82 ft (25 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=42.77480,141.69040)

**Website**
[hokkaido-airports.com ↗](https://www.hokkaido-airports.com/en/new-chitose/)

## Where it sits

42.8°N, 141.7°E puts CTS in the northern hemisphere, 4,756 km from the equator and 5,251 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **137th** most northerly, which makes it the 525th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 42.8°S, 38.3°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Capitan Corbeta CA Curbelo (PDP) in Uruguay, still 1,695 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Sendai** (SDJ), 520 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from CTS

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                  |     | Distance | Estimated |
| --------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-cts) | HND | 820 km   | 1h 31m    |

[Distance from CTS to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=CTS&to=HND) [Map a trip from CTS →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=CTS-HND)

## Where these facts come from

The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.

What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.

[Measure CTS to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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