While Bynn and Ahn are away, we still wanted to go hit some balls (golf balls, okay?) and thought we’d take this chance to try out a different practice range.
We usually go to Arcadia out near Seto, and we like it. It’s just a little far from our house and the last couple of kilometers of the road are very narrow, so it’s a little inconvenient. Mostly, that road feels awkward at best, even dangerous especially at night, which is when we go most of the time.
Anyway, we went out to Tenpaku to a new place for us called Kohnosu.
It’s only 15 minutes from our house, a definite plus. The road is a main road, right up until you arrive. Also a plus.
It’s a little small though it is 2 floors. I think there were about 25 stations on each floor. It’s also narrow and only deep in the exact middle which is about where we were at No. 16.
Speaking of narrow. I’m pretty sure the individual stations also felt a little closer together than Arcadia. A smaller knit pick was the smoking area was almost directly behind us and it wasn’t a filtered room but an outside place.
Also you could only pay by the ball. It’s usually 12 yen per ball on weekdays and 14 yen per ball on weekends. No ‘uchihoudai’ (all you can hit on a time basis) which is the route we usually take. On top of that, you pay first for a set number – 100, 150 etc but the numbers were sort of odd. We got 247 or something like that. You also have to pay a 300 yen user fee.
On the positive side the atmosphere is very high class, and everyone who was using the range looked fairly serious, and of course, much better than me. Sulseob decided not to even hit because she felt a little uncomfortable with all of that though we originally intended for us both to take turns hitting.
They also had auto club speed and distance gages for hitting off the tee, but they didn’t work for when you were hitting irons off the mat.
Oh, there’s also water right out in front of you. That was kind of interesting. There were pitching targets on both sides of the water, and that was pretty interesting. Funny how just having that water there has such an effect. Of course, I think I was the only one hitting into it 😉
I’m glad we went and it was nice, but we probably won’t go back. I prefer the wider areas and ‘all you can hit’ fees at Arcadia.
Here are a couple of photos of the range, the equipment, and the desert 😉
