# Crescent Valley Country Club Minokamo

Golf course in Gifu. Book through Play Golf Tokyo: https://www.play-golf-tokyo.com/courses/crescent-valley-country-club-minokamo

## Facts

- **Region:** Gifu
- **Address:** 1173 Nakahachiya, Hachiya-cho, Minokamo-shi Gifu 505-0005
- **Access:** ~60 min by car from nagoya station
- **Type:** parkland
- **Holes / par:** 18 / 72
- **Length:** 6,443 yds yards
- **Designer:** Seve Ballesteros
- **Established:** 1997
- **Official website:** https://www.mazak.co.jp/profile/relations/crescent/
- **Tags:** Gifu, 18 Holes, Hilly Course, Near Nagoya, Visitors Welcome, Seve Ballesteros Design, Caddie Available, Self-Play Carts, Hidden Gems

## Good to know

- **Carts:** Riding carts
- **Caddie:** Caddie or self-play
- **Greens:** Bent, one green per hole
- **Closed Days:** Mondays (self-play may be offered)
- **Shuttle Bus:** None; taxi about 10 min from JR Mino-Ota Station
- **Practice Range:** 150-yard range, 8 bays

## About the course

Crescent Valley Country Club sits in the rolling hills of Minokamo in southern Gifu, about 50 minutes by expressway from Nagoya. Opened in December 1997, it is a rare Japanese design by the late Seve Ballesteros: 18 holes, par 72, 6,443 yards, laid out over roughly 127 hectares of hilly ground. Seve set out to keep the natural landscape intact, and the result is a course of varied holes with gentle ups and downs rather than bulldozed uniformity.

### A course that carries its designer's name in the sand, _quite literally._

Look out for the bunker on the 9th, shaped in Seve's own initials, and brace for the 12th, a long and demanding par 3 that rewards a brave long iron. Greens are bent, play is by riding cart, and you can choose a caddie or go self-play; there is also a compact 150-yard range for warming up. Minokamo makes an easy half-day from Nagoya, and the surrounding Mino region is good touring country, with the Kiso River gorges, the old castle town of Inuyama and Gifu's cormorant-fishing traditions all within reach. By train, take the JR Takayama Line to Mino-Ota Station and a ten-minute taxi ride; note the course closes on Mondays.

## Play here

- **Request a tee time:** https://www.play-golf-tokyo.com/courses/crescent-valley-country-club-minokamo#request (or with an AI assistant through the Play Golf Tokyo MCP server: https://mcp.play-golf-tokyo.com/mcp). Send preferred dates, time of day, format and players; our team books with the club in Japanese and emails the confirmation.
- **Open rounds to join:** https://www.play-golf-tokyo.com/community
- Green fees are paid at the club on the day.