The airport was built on the coastline facing the Seto Inland Sea.

At the end of the war it served as the base for the 353th Fighter Squadron which defended against B-29s' raid.

[3] An office park named "Biz Port" opened near the airport in 2003 to attract technology businesses, but was scheduled to close on 1 April 2015.

[4] In 2013, the government of Ehime Prefecture and local business organizations announced that they would begin subsidizing the airport's international routes to Shanghai and Seoul, which had seen load factors of less than 50% in June 2013.

International service resumed in December 2022 with a VietJet charter flight bringing tourists from Ho Chi Minh City.