# Trial Golf & Resort Aso Course

Golf course in Kumamoto. Book through Play Golf Tokyo: https://www.play-golf-tokyo.com/courses/trial-golf-resort-aso-course

## Facts

- **Region:** Kumamoto
- **Address:** 4369-1, Kawayou, Minamiaso-mura, Aso-gun Kumamoto 869-1404
- **Access:** ~35 min by car from kumamoto airport
- **Type:** mountain
- **Holes / par:** 18 / 72
- **Course rating:** 72.5
- **Length:** 6,737 yards yards
- **Designer:** Chohei Miyazawa
- **Established:** 1976 (Opened July 24, 1976)
- **Official website:** https://trial-golf-resort-aso-course.com/
- **Tags:** Kumamoto, 18 Holes, Mountain, Hilly Course, Mountain Views, Visitors Welcome, Self-Play Carts

## Good to know

- **Carts:** Riding carts with GPS navigation, fairway access (weather permitting)
- **Greens:** Bent, one green per hole
- **Lodging:** Partner hotel: Aso Canyon Terrace & Lodge
- **Dress Code:** Soft spikes only
- **Closed Days:** Open year-round
- **Practice Range:** Putting green only

## About the course

Formerly known as Aso Tokyu Golf Club and now operating as Trial Golf & Resort Aso Course, this 18-hole, par-72 layout sits in Minamiaso village on the southern side of Mt. Aso in Kumamoto. Opened in 1976 to a design by Chohei Miyazawa, it stretches to roughly 6,700 yards across hilly ground, with plenty of undulation that keeps you thinking about every lie. The opening hole is a scenic par five, and the outward nine has a pleasant wooded feel, while the Aso mountains frame the views throughout.

### A strategic mountain round with Aso always on the horizon, _and fairways you can drive your cart onto._

Play here is relaxed: GPS-equipped riding carts are generally allowed onto the fairways, and the course is open year-round. Bent greens, one per hole, reward a confident putting stroke. The course reopened in stages after the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, and today it makes an easy addition to any trip around the Aso caldera, with its grassy volcanic plains, scenic drives and the hot-spring towns of the area close at hand. It lies about 25 km from Kumamoto IC on the Kyushu Expressway, around 15 minutes by car from JR Higo-Otsu Station and within comfortable reach of Kumamoto Airport.

## Play here

- **Request a tee time:** https://www.play-golf-tokyo.com/courses/trial-golf-resort-aso-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.