Kansai International Airport opened in 1994 on an artificial island off Japan
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Kansai International Airport opened in 1994 on an artificial island about four kilometres from Japan's coast.
Construction moved roughly 430 million cubic metres of rock, used more than one million passes, installed about 48,000 four‑legged breakwaters and around 900 telescopic columns to keep the terminal level; the 1.7‑kilometre terminal was designed by architect Renso Piao. The airport survived the 1995 Kobe earthquake of magnitude about 7 and, three years later, withstood a typhoon with winds near 200 kilometres per hour.