Hiroshima Airport (広島空港, Hiroshima Kūkō) is located in the city of Mihara, roughly 50km east of Hiroshima city, Opened in 1993 to replace the cramped, seaside Hiroshima-Nishi Airport, it was designed specifically to handle the wide-body jets that the old airport couldn't. It has since become a critical hub for the "Setouchi" region.
RJOA is the largest airport in the Chugoku region and was built atop a leveled mountain plateau, making it a "tabletop" airport similar to others in Japan like Kochi or Kumamoto making it a beautiful scenery all around the airport.
While ANA and JAL dominate the domestic routes to Tokyo (Haneda), the airport also sees international traffic from across Asia (Seoul, Taipei, Shanghai), making it suitable for both the medium and wide-body aircrafts. RWY 10 features a massive approach lighting bridge extending out over the valley and CATIII ILS approach. RWY 28 involves a circling approach over the terrain if the winds aren't in your favor or a VOR and RNP approach.
FEATURES :
- Detail Hiroshima airport Scenery
- Surrounding autogen and airport buildings like Forest Hills Garden or the Hiroshima Sky Arch
An excellent airport scenery, slightly let down by its custom ortho imagery, which is very low-res. I can live with it in most areas but the scenery would have looked a lot better had the runway and terminal's outdoor landside been custom-modelled rather than left to this ugly imagery.
The building modelling is excellent throughout, though, and there are a lot of custom assets across the airfield (GSE, parked cars/buses, approach lights, etc.). The terminal has a basic interior, covering only the airside gate areas, but it's enough to create some immersion while sat on the flightdeck.
There are a good number of surrounding POIs, including a handful of bridges (of various sizes), shops, hotels and gardens.
If you can overlook the ground imagery, you'll find everything else extremely high quality.