Face frames in about an hour... »This is Tokyo! Part 7 - Zen and Golf
The high price of land means you never know what strange place a golf course might show up in. This Shrine was obviously run by a Monk who liked the greens. No water trap, but watch the headstones on the 4th hole!
I was very surprised to find a golf course here*, especially since the building in these pictures is over 900 years old and on the National Historical Registry.
With the average cost of 18 holes of golf at over $400, it is not a sport for the weak-of-expense-account types. Of course you could always go to a driving range, which in Tokyo can be the equivalent of standing on the roof of a three story building and swinging... the cubicles at driving ranges are often stacked three stories high!
Hole 9 is challenging with the stone well cover in the way...
Note the artificial turf under this hole...
* OK, I lied! This temple isn't really located in Tokyo. It was in Nagano prefecture a few hours outside of Tokyo, but it does show that you can find strange things in strange places sometimes
OrigPubDate: 2001
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