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Tottori Airport (Tottori Kūkō) (IATA: TTJ, ICAO: RJOR) is an airport serving the city of Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. The airport is owned and operated by the Tottori Prefecture Tottori Airport Authority (Tottori-ken Tottori Kūkō Kanri Jimusho), and has a passenger volume of approximately 330,000 per year. The nickname is Tottori Sand Dunes Conan Airport (Tottori Sakyū Konan Kūkō). Tottori City Airport (Shiei Tottori Hikōjō) was built 500 meters (1,600 ft) south of the present airport in 1957, and had a runway 960 meters (3,150 ft) long and 30 meters (98 ft) wide. It closed in 1964. In 1967 the presentday Tottori Airport was built and opened by the prefectural government and had a runway 1,200 meters (3,900 ft) long and 30 meters (98 ft) wide. The runway was successively lengthened in 1972 to 1,500 meters (4,900 ft), in 1985 to 1,800 meters (5,900 ft), and to its present length of 2,000 meters (6,600 ft) in 1990.[2] The runway is constructed of asphalt concrete. Tottori Airport originally had service only to Tokyo, but the Tokyo service ceased in 1969 when the airport began flights to Osaka. The airport had service to both Osaka and Tokyo service from 1979 to 1985, but now only serves Tokyo.