{"id": "n-df494d2409", "slug": "hiroshima-city-hiroshima-heliport", "type": "other", "name": "Hiroshima Heliport", "aka": [], "city": "Hiroshima City", "county": null, "state": null, "country": "Japan", "census_division": null, "lat": 34.36694444, "lon": 132.41388889, "geocode_method": "wikipedia", "address": null, "metro": null, "original_use": "airport", "year_opened": 1961, "year_closed": 2012, "acres": null, "gla_sqft": null, "stores_peak": null, "levels": null, "original_developer": "Ministry of Transport", "original_architect": null, "before_notes": "Draft from Wikipedia, model-extracted, unreviewed: Former Hiroshima–Nishi Airport converted to a heliport and parts of the site redeveloped into an industrial park and offices.", "strategy": ["redevelop", "reinhabit"], "new_use": ["industrial", "office", "other"], "share_retrofit": null, "status": "built", "year_retrofit": 2012, "developer": null, "architect": null, "after_notes": "heliport, Hiroshima Innovation Techno Port industrial park, offices of football club Sanfrecce Hiroshima", "narrative": "Hiroshima Heliport (広島ヘリポート) (IATA: HIW, ICAO: RJBH), formerly known as Hiroshima–Nishi Airport (広島西飛行場, Hiroshima Nishi Hikōjō) was a heliport in Nishi Ward, located 3.1 NM (5.7 km; 3.6 mi) southwest of Hiroshima City, Japan. The heliport was once a commercial airport before it was closed in November 2012.\n\n\n== History ==\nHiroshima's first airport, Yoshijima Airport (吉島飛行場), opened on a nearby island in Naka-ku, Hiroshima in 1940.", "narrative_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "narrative_source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Heliport", "zoning_change": null, "public_subsidy": null, "entitlement_year": null, "planning_notes": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q3273382", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Heliport", "osm_id": null, "verified": "draft", "verified_by": null, "last_verified": null, "last_updated": "2026-10-18", "created": "2026-10-18", "contributor_name": null, "contributor_org": null, "contributor_link": null, "international": 1, "county_fips": null, "opp_score": null, "opp_reasons": null, "for_sale": 0, "distressed": 0, "url": "https://retrofitatlas.org/other/japan/hiroshima-city-hiroshima-heliport/", "events": [{"year": 1961, "date": null, "kind": "note", "detail": "Hiroshima Airport opened", "source_id": 7126}, {"year": 1961, "date": null, "kind": "opened", "detail": "Opened", "source_id": null}, {"year": 1993, "date": null, "kind": "note", "detail": "Most airline operations moved to new airport, old airport renamed Hiroshima–Nishi Airport", "source_id": 7127}, {"year": 2010, "date": null, "kind": "note", "detail": "Japan Air Commuter service terminated", "source_id": 7128}, {"year": 2011, "date": null, "kind": "note", "detail": "Mayor announced airport conversion to heliport", "source_id": 7129}, {"year": 2012, "date": null, "kind": "note", "detail": "Hiroshima Heliport commenced operations", "source_id": 7130}, {"year": 2012, "date": null, "kind": "closed", "detail": "Closed", "source_id": null}, {"year": 2012, "date": null, "kind": "retrofit", "detail": "Retrofit: redevelop, reinhabit", "source_id": null}, {"year": 2019, "date": null, "kind": "note", "detail": "First phase of industrial park commenced", "source_id": 7131}, {"year": 2021, "date": null, "kind": "note", "detail": "Second phase of industrial park commenced", "source_id": 7132}], "sources": [{"id": 7125, "site_id": "n-df494d2409", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Heliport", "title": "Hiroshima Heliport", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": null, "quote": "Hiroshima Heliport", "kind": "wikipedia", "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "retrieved": "2026-10-18"}, {"id": 7126, "site_id": "n-df494d2409", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Heliport", "title": "Timeline", "publisher": null, "date": null, "quote": "Hiroshima Airport opened on September 15, 1961", "kind": "quote", "license": null, "retrieved": "2026-10-18"}, {"id": 7127, "site_id": "n-df494d2409", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Heliport", "title": "Timeline", "publisher": null, "date": null, "quote": "most airline operations moved to the new airport effective October 29, 1993. The old Hiroshima Airport was then renamed Hiroshima–Nishi Airport", "kind": "quote", "license": null, "retrieved": "2026-10-18"}, {"id": 7128, "site_id": "n-df494d2409", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Heliport", "title": "Timeline", "publisher": null, "date": null, "quote": "service was terminated as part of the corporate restructuring of its parent company Japan Airlines", "kind": "quote", "license": null, "retrieved": "2026-10-18"}, {"id": 7129, "site_id": "n-df494d2409", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Heliport", "title": "Timeline", "publisher": null, "date": null, "quote": "a new mayor announced in May that the airport would be converted to a heliport by 2012", "kind": "quote", "license": null, "retrieved": "2026-10-18"}, {"id": 7130, "site_id": "n-df494d2409", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Heliport", "title": "Timeline", "publisher": null, "date": null, "quote": "Hiroshima Heliport commenced operations on November 15, 2012", "kind": "quote", "license": null, "retrieved": "2026-10-18"}, {"id": 7131, "site_id": "n-df494d2409", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Heliport", "title": "Timeline", "publisher": null, "date": null, "quote": "first phase commencing in 2019", "kind": "quote", "license": null, "retrieved": "2026-10-18"}, {"id": 7132, "site_id": "n-df494d2409", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Heliport", "title": "Timeline", "publisher": null, "date": null, "quote": "second phase commencing in 2021", "kind": "quote", "license": null, "retrieved": "2026-10-18"}], "deals": [], "parties": [], "parcels": [], "context": {"assessment": {"what_happened": "Hiroshima Heliport (formerly Hiroshima–Nishi Airport) closed in 2012 after operating as a commercial airport since 1961. 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