Tanegashima Golf Resort

Tanegashima Golf Resort opened in 1991 to a design by the American architect Karl Litten, playing a substantial 7,024 yards from the back tees with a 73.6 rating and 131 slope over bent grass greens, on Tanegashima, an island off Kagoshima's southern coast best known as the site of Japan's primary rocket launch facility, the Tanegashima Space Center. Facilities include golf carts, club rentals, a driving range, and putting green, along with meeting and banquet spaces, and the resort accepts JCB, Visa, and American Express. Golfers visiting Tanegashima Golf Resort can combine their round with a visit to the Space Center, one of Japan's most significant aerospace facilities and a genuinely unusual pairing for a golf trip, along with the island's beaches, which are also known among surfers as the birthplace of Japanese surfing culture. Being one of the more remote courses in this entire Kyushu survey, requiring a ferry or short flight from the Kagoshima mainland, Tanegashima Golf Resort rewards travelers willing to make the extra journey with a genuinely distinctive combination of golf, space history, and island scenery. Golfers planning a Tanegashima island trip through CoGolfers can add this resort to the itinerary, and the community is a good place to find others interested in this unusual, remote destination.