The previous comment sums up pretty much everything.
Compare to other Japanese courses, the holes are not too short.
The course requires a variety of shots

-Need a registration at the office
-Some tees are hard to locate since it is away from the tee sign
-Occasionally, overcrowded with (sometimes unwelcoming) local elderlies. Go check the course review on PDGA website as well.

Great course design but the local community, mostly consists of elderlies, is unwelcoming and does not have a good attitude towards outsiders and non-club members. Thus, I had to give a low rating.

The last time I came here, it was overcrowded with the locals. Most of the locals play with their original alternative course design which makes almost all the fairways overlap with other fairways, tees, and baskets of the regular course. While I was playing with regular course design, some local guys, who were playing with alternative design, started to shout at me to "watch out for the disc and move away". Some people don't really care if I was still on the fairway and started to throw the discs at me. Also, their alternative course design does not consider the flow of people and the safety and with many people playing in that format made the course chaotic.
What was worst, one elderly club member asked me if I am in disc golf insurance, which I was not and didn't even know such an existence, and I answered no. The guy responded in an extremely aggressive manner by screaming "If I got injured, I will accuse you and make you pay for everything." It was disappointing to encounter such a rude person in the disc golf world.
So the conclusion is that the course itself is great, but some local elderly are not welcoming and do not have a sense of respect for outsiders (btw, I'm Japanese).

Tips: If I go next time, I will check if it is reserved by a group/club or not. You would not like to play with numbers of "unwelcoming" local members

- free to play
- free parking
- multiple tees, there's loads of alternative tees throughout the course
- numbered signs on primary tees with distances marked
- tees are turf
- numbered baskets
- regularly landscaped and maintained course
- no course access limitations

- not close enough to a major railway station to walk
- not listed on the JPDGA website
- less than easy layout to follow for first timers
- short tee pads
- no signs on alternate pads
- some turf pads are lumpy and weathered
- private property parallel to some fairways
- no long bomber holes
- mostly flat
- just 9 holes
- fairway overlap
- some baskets and signs are in need of some TLC

The Ryu (Dragon) DGC is located within a square-ish shaped community park of a farming community. Each of the 9 holes has a primary tee + sign and multiple alternate turf tees sans-sign. Basically, it's a safari pitch and putt course with 9 numbered baskets working their way around the park in a mostly counterclockwise direction. The shared space has loosely defined fairways that give each hole shape, though. There's a seemingly endless, but not necessarily open or trivial, number of approaches to take to each basket.

This park lacks the look of a traditional course; however, there's enough variety to challenge the average course explorer. Not many Japanese courses that I've played have the ability or space to make multiple tees work, which makes this place unique. Locals landscape the course and do a great job of keeping it clean, too. They also, regularly hold a monthly league event on the first Sunday of every month. Registration is 500 yen, registration starts at 830-9 am. I've made the pilgrimage here a few times now and I can honestly say that I'd rather throw Ryu than any of the Tokyo courses. Too bad it's such a pain in the ass to get to.

Here's a quick pro tip for any military members in the area looking to do some course exploring in Ibaraki Prefecture: don't drive your own personal vehicle here, rent a van instead. Tolls through Tokyo and the Ibaraki Prefecture are crazy expensive, but with a base van rental they're free. The money saved by not paying tolls on my most recent road trip to throw a few Ibaraki Prefecture courses was greater than my rental van fee.