Supercar Blondie
Henry Kelsall
14 Apr 2026

Japan’s record-breaking $20 billion airport, Kansai International Airport, opened in 1994, but it won’t be too long before it sinks into the sea.

Kansai International Airport is one of the wildest in the world, built on its own island, and it serves around 26 million passengers per year.

Yet this impressive location is slowly being swallowed by the ocean, and while that outcome was always inevitable, it’s doing it so much faster than engineers predicted...

How long Japan's record-breaking $20,000,000,000 airport has left before it sinks into the sea - Supercar Blondie - 14 Apr 2026

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