Tarumae Country Club

Tarumae Country Club, designed by Osamu Ueda and opened in 1963, rotates three nine-hole courses — Middle, South and North — into three 18-hole combinations in the Nishikioka district of Tomakomai, part of southern Hokkaido's exceptionally dense golf corridor near New Chitose Airport. Each combination plays to a par of 72 across bent grass fairways and greens, with the Middle/South pairing stretching to a substantial 7,251 yards from the black tees and carrying a course rating of 71.2 and slope of 131, while the other combinations play similarly long at over 7,100 yards. As a private club with more than six decades of history, Tarumae carries a traditional, dress-code-enforced character typical of Japan's older established clubs. The facility offers caddies and golf cart rentals, along with driving range and pitching/chipping practice areas, and the golf season runs March through December. As a private club, CoGolfers members hoping to play here are best served by arranging access through a local member connection. Its location within the crowded Nishikioka golf district, alongside Hokkaido Golf Club's Eagle and Lion courses, makes it a natural fit within a multi-round day for golfers who can secure access to this well-regarded, genuinely long design.