Kansai international airport is one of the two artificial structures visible from Space, the other is Great Wall Of China open for business since 4 September 1994. The purpose of this project was to build Japan’s first 24 hour international airport , in order to respond to increased demand for air transport not only in Kansai but in whole of the country. There mountains in southern part of Japan’s Osaka bay has to be leveled to provide landmass, and transport bridges from the harbor 5km away also had to be built. The cost and the constructional difficulties of this ambitious undertaking were outweighed by the ideal of an isolated flight side with future expansion possibilities and without the need for noise restrictions. Although the island is fully operational , this is only the end of Phase one, Plans for phase 2 include increasing the size of the island and adding further 2 runways.
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