Japan’s Mountains by Train & Bus

A solitary peak with a refuge hut near the top, commanding fine views of the northern Alps centered on Hotaka and Yarigatake.

The crowning peak of the Central Alps, reached by ropeway to the flower-filled Senjōshiki Kar and spectacular in all four seasons.

The highest point of the Misaka range, surveying Fuji and the Fuji Five Lakes with changing backdrops of fresh green, autumn leaves, and sea of clouds.

A sacred northern-Alps mountain where ptarmigan roam and snowmelt triggers a sea of alpine flowers, one of Japan's great religious peaks.

The highest peak of the Shiga Highlands, with an exhilarating ridge walk through bog pools and Dake-Kaнba forest rich in flowers and views.

A great isolated sacred mountain with the mystical Ni-no-ike crater lake, its sweeping summit view simply described as unrivaled.

One of Japan's three sacred mountains, a spiritual peak carpeted with alpine flowers beginning with the Hakusan Ichige that bears its name.

A northern-Alps classic combining Japan's greatest snowfield, sweeping flower meadows, and the optional Hakuba Yari hot spring on a traverse.