Golf in Japan, planned the way you would plan it yourself — if you lived here.
Tee times at courses that rarely take visitors. Hotels and ryokan chosen for people who leave at six in the morning. One team, in Tokyo, from your first email to your departure transfer.
The best-conditioned golf in the world, behind a language barrier.
Japan has more than two thousand courses, several of them genuinely world-class, and almost all of them are superbly maintained. What it does not have is an easy way in: booking systems in Japanese, clubs that only accept visitors through an agent, dress codes that are quietly enforced, and a rhythm of play that catches first-timers out.
That is the whole of our job. We are a small team in Tokyo who have spent fourteen years building relationships with clubs, and we spend them on your behalf — so your week is four or eight rounds of excellent golf with nothing in the way.
Four steps, and none of them are yours to chase.
- 01
Tell us how you play
A short brief: who is coming, roughly when, how many rounds you actually want, and what the non-golfers would like out of the week.
- 02
We check what is real
Before we propose anything we test availability with the clubs. You get a plan built on tee times we can actually hold, not a wish list.
- 03
An itinerary, then revisions
A day-by-day plan with courses, hotels, transfers and costs in one document. We rework it with you until it is right.
- 04
We run it on the ground
Drivers, caddies, club transfers, restaurant bookings and a phone number that answers at 6am when the flight changes.
Starting points, not fixed departures.
Every trip we run is built from scratch. These are the shapes that work best — use one as a base and we will rebuild it around your group.
Tokyo & Mount Fuji
The classic first trip: four great courses, two nights in Tokyo, Fuji on the skyline.
jetalone / CC BY 2.0Hokkaido Summer
Cool air, long evenings and five rounds while the rest of Japan swelters.
AHLN / CC BY 2.0Kyushu Golf Trail
Six rounds in Miyazaki and Kagoshima, playable through the Japanese winter.
Where we take people.
A working selection from the courses we book most often — clifftop, parkland, links and mountain, across every region we cover.
Kawana Hotel Golf Course — Fuji Course
Japan's most photographed golf hole, on a cliff above Sagami Bay.
- Holes
- 18 holes
- Par
- Par 72
- Green fee from
- From ¥38,000
Taiheiyo Club — Gotemba Course
Tournament conditioning at the foot of Mount Fuji.
- Holes
- 18 holes
- Par
- Par 72
- Green fee from
- From ¥32,000
Hokkaido Classic Golf Club
A Nicklaus design cut through white birch and silver fir.
- Holes
- 18 holes
- Par
- Par 72
- Green fee from
- From ¥22,000
Phoenix Country Club
Twenty-seven holes of pine, ocean breeze and tournament history.
- Holes
- 27 holes
- Par
- Par 72
- Green fee from
- From ¥26,000
Access is the product. Everything else is logistics we handle.
Some of the courses people most want to play in Japan do not take direct visitor bookings at all. We tell you plainly which of those we can open on your dates — and which we cannot.
- Tee times confirmed and held before you pay a balance
- Hotels, resorts and ryokan chosen for early starts and late finishes
- Private vehicles with English-speaking drivers on golf days
- Clubs couriered hotel to hotel so you never carry them on a train
- Restaurant reservations, including the ones that do not take foreign bookings
- Guided culture days for anyone in the group who is not playing
- A tour manager on longer trips, and a 24-hour phone line on all of them
There is no wrong month — only a wrong region for the month.
Japan runs from subarctic to subtropical. Tell us your dates and we will point you at the part of the country that is at its best.
| Season | Months | Where | What to expect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring | March – May | Tokyo, Kansai, Kyushu | Cherry blossom, mild mornings, the busiest booking window of the year. |
| Summer | June – August | Hokkaido, Nagano highlands | Humid on Honshu — go north. Hokkaido is at its best and daylight runs past seven. |
| Autumn | September – November | Everywhere | The connoisseur's season: firm turf, clear air, maples turning behind the greens. |
| Winter | December – February | Izu, Miyazaki, Okinawa | Clearest Mount Fuji views of the year, and golf that never stops in the far south. |
What travellers tell us afterwards.
Four of us, eight rounds, four regions, and not one moment where we had to work out where to be. The clubs were waiting at each hotel before we were.
I play, my wife does not, and this is the first golf trip where neither of us spent a day waiting for the other. That took real thought from whoever built the schedule.
They told us upfront which two courses on our list were not going to happen, and why. The honesty at the start is what made us book.
Tell us your dates. We will tell you what is possible.
Planning is free and there is no obligation. Most enquiries come back with a first outline within one business day.