# Taiheiyo Club Sano Hillcrest Course

Golf course in Tochigi. Book through Play Golf Tokyo: https://www.play-golf-tokyo.com/courses/taiheiyo-club-sano-hillcrest-course

## Facts

- **Region:** Tochigi
- **Address:** 2854 Funakoshi-cho, Sano-shi Tochigi 327-0305
- **Access:** ~90 min by car from tokyo station
- **Holes / par:** 18 / 72
- **Course rating:** 73.3
- **Length:** Champion 7,045, Back 6,626, Regular 6,174, Ladies 5,033 yards
- **Designer:** Eiichi Motohashi (supervised by Desmond Muirhead; remodel by Norio Honma)
- **Established:** 2001 (April 7)
- **Official website:** https://www.taiheiyoclub.co.jp/course/hillcrest/index.html
- **Tags:** Tochigi, 18 Holes, Taiheiyo Club Group, Private Course, Desmond Muirhead Design, Water Hazards, Caddie Available, Near Tokyo

## Good to know

- **Caddie:** Optional
- **Greens:** One green per hole
- **Booking:** Visitors need a member's introduction; on spring and autumn weekends a member must accompany
- **Shuttle Bus:** No club bus; taxi from Tobu Tanuma Station about 15 min

## About the course

Taiheiyo Club Sano Hillcrest Course lies in the green hills outside Sano in southern Tochigi. Opened on April 7, 2001, it was designed by Eiichi Motohashi under the supervision of Desmond Muirhead, and later remodelled by Norio Honma. The 18-hole, par-72 course stretches to 7,045 yards from the champion tees, with a JGA course rating of 73.3, and it hosts the Japan Golf Tour's first qualifying stage each year. The club describes a blend of European and Japanese character in which every hole has a strong personality: American-style water holes, flat tree-lined holes, highland holes bordered by forest, and fairways that roll across the hills.

### Every hole has its own voice, _and the last one is played to an island._

Each hole has a single green ringed by sculpted bunkers, and water shapes several of them, from the 8th, where a bunker runs into a pond beside the green, to the 18th, an elevated-tee par 4 to an island green surrounded by water and sand. Caddies are available, and visitors join through a member's introduction. Sano is famous for its ramen and its large premium outlet mall, and the old temple town of Ashikaga, with its flower park, is nearby. Drivers exit the Kita-Kanto Expressway at Sano-Tanuma IC, about ten minutes away; by train, take the Tobu line from Asakusa via Tatebayashi to Tanuma, then a 15-minute taxi.

## Play here

- **Request a tee time:** https://www.play-golf-tokyo.com/courses/taiheiyo-club-sano-hillcrest-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.