Kannabe Kogen Country Club

Kannabe Kogen Country Club has played in the Hidaka district of Toyooka city, on Hyogo's northern Sea of Japan coast, since 1971, stretching to 6,503 yards from the back tees. 'Kogen' in the club's name means highland or plateau, referencing the elevated Kannabe Highlands area known for its ski resort in winter and cooler summer climate, making the golf course part of a genuinely four-season recreational area. Toyooka is nationally known as a conservation center for the Oriental white stork, a bird once extinct in the wild in Japan and successfully reintroduced through decades of local effort, giving the city a distinctive ecological identity. The club's location on Hyogo's less-visited northern coast, facing the Sea of Japan rather than the busier Seto Inland Sea side, offers golfers a genuinely different regional character from the prefecture's southern golf clusters. Having operated since the early 1970s, the course carries the mature character typical of that golf construction era. Golfers exploring Hyogo's northern coast and stork conservation area through CoGolfers can pair that visit with a round at Kannabe Kogen Country Club.