Kanokawa, Japan
Port · JPKKW · 34.18°, 132.43°
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 5
- vessel calls / yr
- 172
About the port
The World Port Index lists Kanokawa as a very small coastal natural harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 17 m in the channel, 11 m at the anchorage and 11 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 8 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Pilotage is not compulsory.
Kanokawa is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 134 port calls at Kanokawa from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 11 a month, 26% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 96%, general cargo ships 4% and dry bulk carriers 1% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 310 thousand t imported and 247 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Mar 2026 (18 calls) and the quietest Jan 2026 (8).
What is reported near this port
5 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Kanokawa, the earliest issued in 1997; the most common types are quakes (5).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Kanokawa is not necessarily about the port; collection is incomplete between 2024-05 and 2026-08-17.
Port calls per month · IMF PortWatch estimates
Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 (last bar: month in progress) · last complete month Aug 2026: 11 calls, 13 thousand t in, 9 thousand t out
Warnings within 60 nm, by year of issue
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- very small coastal natural
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 17 m · anchorage 11 m · oil terminal 11 m
- mean rise of tide
- 8 m
- entrance restricted by
- other; not ice, swell, tide
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance; not salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage
- cranes
- not fixed, floating, mobile
- services
- medical; not longshore labour
- supplies
- diesel, fuel oil, provisions, water
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 97297
World Port Index entry Kanokawa Ko (No. 61655), matched by UN/LOCODE. NGA Publication 150 (U.S. government work). The index describes the port as last surveyed for the publication; it is not a substitute for Sailing Directions or port authority information.
Share of Japan's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.1%, exports 0.1%.
Chokepoint and port data: IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org) — IMF and the University of Oxford, via the UN Global Platform. Not for navigation — follow official NAVAREA / coastal broadcasts and port authority notices.