Tarama Airport — Tarama, Japan

Tarama Airport is a small airfield serving Tarama Island, part of the Okinawa Prefecture's remote Miyako island group in southwestern Japan. TRA connects this sparsely populated island to Miyako via short domestic flights, providing a vital transport link for the few thousand residents and visitors drawn to Tarama's traditional villages, sugarcane fields, and pristine beaches. The island is known for preserving customs less common elsewhere in Okinawa, including distinctive folk performances and architecture. Given Tarama's small size and limited ferry alternatives, the airport plays an outsized role in sustaining the local economy and enabling access for both residents and the modest tourism the island attracts.