Onoda, Japan
Port · JPOND · 33.97°, 131.17° · Mineral Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages, Vegetable Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 9
- vessel calls / yr
- 642
About the port
The World Port Index lists Onoda as a small open roadstead harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 6 m in the channel, 6 m at the anchorage and 5 m at the cargo pier, with a mean rise of tide of 4 m.
Pilotage is not compulsory but is advisable.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
PortWatch estimates 587 port calls at Onoda from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 49 a month, close to the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 75%, tankers 18% and dry bulk carriers 7% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 90 thousand t imported and 131 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Sep 2025 (59 calls) and the quietest Apr 2026 (33).
What is reported near this port
9 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Onoda, the earliest issued in 1997; the most common types are quakes (8) and cable ops (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Onoda 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: 51 calls, 5 thousand t in, 12 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.
Disruption events listing this port · IMF PortWatch
- HAISHEN-20 · tropical cyclone · red alert · 2020-08-31 to 2020-09-07 — Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 250 km/h)
PortWatch lists the ports inside each event's affected area; being listed does not mean the port was damaged or closed.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- small open roadstead
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Korea Strait; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 6 m · anchorage 6 m · cargo pier 5 m
- mean rise of tide
- 4 m
- pilotage
- advisable; not compulsory
- tugs
- not assistance, salvage
- services
- longshore labour
- supplies
- fuel oil, water
- repairs
- limited
- marine railway
- small
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 97273
World Port Index entry Onoda (No. 62079), 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 0.0%, 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.