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Originally Posted by Nyororin
It is indeed - but every once in a while some tourism group talks about changing it`s name or at least it`s "unofficial" name to Kyoto International Airport. It pops up in the news every once in a while. I don`t think anyone ever takes it seriously, and I seriously doubt they`d ever actually change it. But it seems like whenever there are figures pointing out more people flying into some other airport, they say "Well, foreigners don`t know what Kansai is! They`d fly in here more if it had a more familiar name. Most people go from there to Kyoto, so that would be more appealing for tourists."
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very true, it will be like Narita not really being in Tokyo and SFO not really being in San Fracisco...ect
but, it does make sense as far as foreign toursim goes...whatever can bring in the money