Namikata, Japan
Port · JPNIT · 34.12°, 132.94°
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 2
- vessel calls / yr
- 442
About the port
The World Port Index lists Namikata as a very small open roadstead harbour with poor shelter.
Listed depths: 23 m in the channel and 22 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 4 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated none.
PortWatch estimates 337 port calls at Namikata from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 28 a month, 24% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 65%, general cargo ships 32% and dry bulk carriers 3% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 252 thousand t imported and 298 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Jul 2026 (42 calls) and the quietest Dec 2025 (15).
What is reported near this port
2 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Namikata, the earliest issued in 2001; the most common types are quakes (2).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Namikata 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: 21 calls, 20 thousand t in, 16 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 open roadstead
- shelter
- poor
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 23 m · oil terminal 22 m
- mean rise of tide
- 4 m
- entrance restricted by
- other
- overhead limits
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- supplies
- not diesel, fuel oil
- repairs
- none
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 97295
World Port Index entry Namikata (No. 61664), 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 0.2%.
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.