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The airport is often called Itami Airport (伊丹空港) because most of its land is located in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture. However, the terminal complex is located in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, and the only access from the Itami side is via a long tunnel that passes below the runway and apron.

Despite its "international" designation, the airport's scheduled air traffic is entirely domestic. Kansai International Airport took over Osaka's international traffic in 1994 and competes with Itami for domestic traffic. Itami will also face competition from Kobe Airport when that airport is completed.

Osaka Airport is accessible by the Osaka Monorail, as well as by regular bus service from most transportation hubs in the Kansai region.

1 History

• 1939Events January-June January 2 End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Culbert Levy Olson. January 24 Earthquake kills 30. 000 in Chile about 50. 000 sq mi razed January 26 Falangists take Barcelona January 26: Osaka Airport opens.
• 1945Events January January 5 The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. January 7 British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge. January 12 World War II:: U.S. occupation forces take over Osaka Airport, renaming it Itami Air Base.
• 1954Events January events January 14 The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator forming the American Motors Corporation January 14 Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio. January 15 Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya January 20 The Nati: Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe ( June 1, 1926 August 5, 1962) was an American actress of the 20th century. Her sizzling screen presence and premature death would make her a perennial sex symbol and later a pop icon. Early life She was born Norma Jeane Mortensen in the ch and Joe DiMaggioJoseph Paul DiMaggio (born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio November 25, 1914 in Martinez, California March 8, 1999 in Hollywood, Florida) was an American baseball player. A "picture player" at bat and in center field, many rate his 56-game hitting streak (from Ma stop in Itami during their honeymoon.
• 19561956 is a leap year starting on Sunday. see link for calendar) Events January January 1 End of Anglo- Egyptian Condominium in Sudan. January 16 President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine January 26 1956 Winter Olympic Games open in: The base is used in the filming of the movie Sayonara.
• 1960Events January-February January 1 Independence of Cameroon January 9 Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt January 11 Chad declares its independence. January 14 Ralph Chubb, the gay poet and printer, dies at Fair Oak Cottage in Hampshire. January 23: Civil flights resume.
• August 12, 1985: Japan Airlines Flight 123, bound for Itami Airport, loses control and crashes into a mountain after takeoff from Tokyo International Airport, Ota, Tokyo; it is the worst single-aircraft disaster in history, with over 500 dead.
• 1994: Kansai International Airport opens; international services are transferred from Itami to Kansai.
• 2000: JAL, ANA, and JAS launch coordinated "shuttle service" to Tokyo International Airport.