Aomori Airport - Aomori, Japan (Cam 1)

This camera watches the apron and runway at Aomori Airport (青森空港), in Japan's far north, where planes come and go between snowbanks for much of the winter and ground crews work around the clock to keep the field open.

The airport gets an average of about 22 feet (669 cm) of snow a year. A crew of 38 vehicles nicknamed White Impulse clears the runway, taxiway and apron in about 40 minutes, keeping flights running through heavy storms.

The current airport opened in 1987 with a runway 9,843 feet (3,000 m) long, and in 2024 it handled about 1.23 million passengers on flights across Japan and to Seoul and Taipei.

Did You Know? The original Aomori Airport opened on November 5, 1964, in Namioka, a town that has since become part of Aomori city.

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