# Murakami City Arakawa Golf Course

Golf course in Niigata. Book through Play Golf Tokyo: https://www.play-golf-tokyo.com/courses/murakami-city-arakawa-golf-course

## Facts

- **Region:** Niigata
- **Address:** 3318, Otsu, Arakawa-machi , Iwafune-gun Niigata 959-3122
- **Access:** ~50 min by car from niigata station
- **Holes / par:** 18 / 72
- **Length:** 6,065 yards yards
- **Designer:** Kokusai Kogyo
- **Established:** 1991 (Opened October 13, 1991)
- **Official website:** http://golfclubjapan.com/TARGET%3D_blank
- **Tags:** Niigata, 18 Holes, Riverside, Flat Course, Public Course, Visitors Welcome, Beginner Friendly, Self-Play Carts

## Good to know

- **Carts:** Riding carts with GPS navigation
- **Greens:** Bent, one green per hole
- **Season:** Open from around March 11 to mid-December; closed in winter
- **Lodging:** No on-site lodging
- **Dress Code:** Soft spikes recommended
- **Closed Days:** No regular closed days during the season
- **Practice Range:** Driving range plus approach, bunker and putting practice areas

## About the course

Murakami City Arakawa Golf Course is a municipal public course in northern Niigata Prefecture, laid out on the floodplain of the Arakawa River. It opened in 1991, was designed by Kokusai Kogyo, and plays 18 holes at par 72 across 6,065 yards of flat riverside ground. That sounds gentle, and much of it is, but the wind coming off the river (the east wind here is well known locally) can change a round fast. A few holes on the front nine have small, contoured greens guarded by bunkers, and the round finishes on a long par-7 home hole that locals treat as the course's signature. GPS riding carts, bent greens and a full practice area make it a relaxed, good-value day out, and the local tourism board calls it well suited to beginners.

### Birdsong, running water and a river breeze, _on one of Niigata's friendliest public courses._

The course is open from around mid-March to mid-December, so it fits spring, summer and autumn trips to the Sea of Japan coast. Around it you'll find Arakawa Shrine with its model-ship offerings, Otsuhoji Temple and its three-story pagoda, a strawberry farm and the Michi no Eki Kamihayashi roadside station. The castle town of Murakami, known for salmon, is close by. Getting there is easiest by car: the Arakawa-Tainai interchange on the Nihonkai-Tohoku Expressway is a few kilometres away, and JR Sakamachi Station is about five minutes by taxi.

## Play here

- **Request a tee time:** https://www.play-golf-tokyo.com/courses/murakami-city-arakawa-golf-course#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.