Crown Hills Kyoto Golf Club

Crown Hills Kyoto Golf Club has operated as a semi-private course in Hiyoshi, a rural district of northern Kyoto prefecture, since 1986, playing 6,245 yards from the black tees over bent grass greens with a 70.1 rating and 121 slope, and a considerably shorter 5,060-yard option from the ladies' tees. The club offers golf carts, caddies, and club rentals, along with a putting green and banquet facilities, giving it a genuine resort-style amenity set for a course tucked into the hills well north of Kyoto city itself. Hiyoshi sits along the Yura River in what was historically Funai District, an area known for its dam and rural scenery rather than the temples and shrines that draw most visitors to the wider prefecture. Being built in the mid-1980s, Crown Hills reflects a slightly later wave of Kyoto-area golf development than the many clubs built during the 1960s and 1970s golf boom closer to the prefecture's more populated southern half. The course's northern location makes it a genuinely different golf experience from Kyoto's southern courses around Uji and Joyo, with a quieter, more mountainous setting. Golfers looking for a rural round away from Kyoto's tourist crowds through CoGolfers can consider Crown Hills, and the community is a good place to find others willing to make the drive north for a quieter day of golf.