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Recently, golf courses have been remarkably developed in Japan. The number of golf courses in this country is said to rank fifth in the whole world.
The number of Japanese golf players are growing so rapidly that the golf course hardly meet the demand of the players ; there has been an unbalance between the number of golf courses and that of players in Japan.
Golf players are distributed geographically uneven in the Japanese islands. Golf players are, on the whole, concentrated along the so called Pacific Belt where a large number of big cities are densely located. The number of golf players in the prefectures along the coast of the Sea of Japan and in the northern part of the Tohoku District in total is com-paratively small. The geographical distribution above mentioned can be mainly explained by the population distribution and climatic conditions.
Golf courses are most densely distributed around big cities. Furthermore, golf courses have been recently developed around local cities of medium size. There are a lot of golf courses which are located within 50 km distance from the downtowns of Tokyo and Osaka respectively, to which one can easily go and back in a day from each urban center. As the development of the communication facilities is going on, the spatial boundary of the area above mentioned is becoming wider and wider.
The golf courses in Kanto District are classified into six groups according to the topographical conditions.
There are still a lot of aspects which have not been referred in this article. One of the most important one among them is concerned with administrative regulations.
