Onuma Kokusai Country Club

Overview: Onuma Kokusai Country Club is an 18-hole woodland course at the foot of Mount Komagatake in Shikabe, on the southern Hokkaido route between Hakodate and the Onuma area. The current official guide lists par 72 and 7,130 yards from the full back tees. Its layout is mostly gentle through the forest, but the official description points out that holes 3 and 4 sit on higher ground, while ponds, streams and a river crossing add decisions to the round. The result is a course that feels shaped by the landscape rather than imposed on it.

History: The present profile deliberately separates Onuma Kokusai from the similarly named Hokkaido Country Club Onuma course elsewhere in southern Hokkaido. The official Onuma Kokusai guide confirms the exact Shikabe address and current 18-hole identity, but the reviewed sources do not publish a secure opening year or designer for this specific course. That is why the history is recorded through the course’s continuing forest-and-water character rather than by importing dates or architecture from the other Onuma venue.

Did You Know? The official guide singles out the second shot on the 10th, where a river crossing becomes part of the hole’s strategy. It also notes that the third and fourth holes use elevated ground while much of the course remains relatively level. Those contrasts give the round a useful internal rhythm: the player moves from broad woodland corridors into more exposed or water-influenced decisions, then returns to the shelter of the forest.