The airport has a single passenger terminal building serving domestic and international flights.

[3] Its runway surface was upgraded in late 2006 to enable non-stop freighter flights to and from Europe and North America.

The airport was originally a base of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.

The United States Armed Forces took over the base at the end of the war in 1945 and used the site as a radar facility.

[4] Ishikawa Prefecture set aside funds for an airport promotion committee in 2012 amid expectations that the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen in 2015 would impact traffic on the Komatsu-Tokyo route.