Kikuma, Japan
Port · JPKIK · 34.05°, 132.86° · Mineral Products, Chemical & Allied Industries, Plastics, Rubber, Leather
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 3
- vessel calls / yr
- 1,470
About the port
The World Port Index lists Kikuma as a very small coastal breakwater harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 23 m in the channel, 23 m at the anchorage, 16 m at the cargo pier and 23 m at the oil terminal.
Entry can be restricted by swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is not compulsory but is advisable.
Repair facilities are rated none.
Kikuma is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 1,504 port calls at Kikuma from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 125 a month, close to the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 100% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 1.4 million t imported and 2.1 million t exported.
The busiest month was Oct 2025 (154 calls) and the quietest Apr 2026 (88).
What is reported near this port
3 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Kikuma, the earliest issued in 2001; the most common types are quakes (3).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Kikuma 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: 134 calls, 31 thousand t in, 206 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 breakwater
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 23 m · anchorage 23 m · cargo pier 16 m · oil terminal 23 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell; not ice
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable; not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance; not salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage
- services
- longshore labour, medical; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- fuel oil, water
- repairs
- none
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 97294
World Port Index entry Kikuma Ko (No. 62060), 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 0.3%, exports 0.8%.
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.