Japan’s Mountains by Train & Bus
Find your next hike — no car needed. Trailhead access, down to the timetable.
- 414 mountains
- 126 100 Famous
🌿 In season this month
Good hikes for the current season, sorted by public-transport access.
ⓘ Access = how easy the trailhead is to reach by public transport (based on first-bus timing, transfers, direct/seasonal buses and whether a taxi is needed)
- Mt. Akita-KomagatakeIn season🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 6:26 / No transfers / Seasonal bus
- Mt. NekoIn season🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:03 / No transfers
- Mt. Nikko-ShiraneIn season🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:12 / No transfers
- Mt. TanigawaIn season🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:45 / No transfers
- Mt. TateshinaIn season🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:53 / No transfers / Seasonal bus
- Mt. AmakazariIn season🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:30 / No transfers
- Mt. TogakushiIn season🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 7:55 / No transfers
- Mt. Echigo-KomagatakeIn season🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 7:35 / No transfers / Seasonal bus
- Mt. HiuchiIn season🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:00 / No transfers / Direct hiking bus / Seasonal bus
- Mt. MyokoIn season🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:00 / No transfers / Direct hiking bus / Seasonal bus
- Mt. SennokuraIn season🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 6:09 / No transfers
- Mt. TakatsumaIn season🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 7:47 / No transfers
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A high peak reached by a grassy ridge walk from the Ōdarumi Pass, welcoming arrivals with a sweeping panorama from Fuji to the southern Alps.
The highest point of the Amago range, the best westward viewpoint for an unobstructed face-on view of Mt. Fuji.
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.
The fourth-highest peak in the southern Alps, a massive mountain that embodies the name of the Akaishi range.
The northern sentinel of the southern Alps, nicknamed the Southern Alps Prince for its striking white granite ridgeline.
A mountain whose broad high alpine wetland and countless bog pools are hailed as a sky-high paradise, magical for summer flowers and autumn grass.
The crowning peak of the Yatsugatake range, rewarding climbers with a rocky ridge and a sweeping 360-degree panorama.
The dominant peak of the Echigo Sanzan, famous for taki-gumo waterfalls and Nikkō Day-lily meadows on its sweeping ridge.
A perfectly conical Suwa Fuji summit with a sweeping northern panorama of the Yatsugatake range and the northern Alps.
A shapely isolated peak known as the Ono Fuji, popular for its views of Hakusan and brilliant autumn foliage.
A quiet Echigo peak above Lake Tagokura, known for its early-summer Himesayuri lily colonies.
A solitary peak deep in the southern Alps, reached by a long ridge walk through untouched primeval forest.
A sacred mountain steeped in Amaterasu legend at the southern tip of the Central Alps, with views north and south to distant ranges.
A solitary peak with a refuge hut near the top, commanding fine views of the northern Alps centered on Hotaka and Yarigatake.
One of Japan's three sacred mountains, a spiritual peak carpeted with alpine flowers beginning with the Hakusan Ichige that bears its name.
The highest peak of the Shiga Highlands, with an exhilarating ridge walk through bog pools and Dake-Kaнba forest rich in flowers and views.
The crowning peak of the Central Alps, reached by ropeway to the flower-filled Senjōshiki Kar and spectacular in all four seasons.
A handsome stratovolcano known as the Echigo Fuji, connected by a flower-rich traverse to Hiuchigatake with sweeping views.
🔥 Popular this week
Mountains gaining attention right now, by region.
ⓘ Access = how easy the trailhead is to reach by public transport (based on first-bus timing, transfers, direct/seasonal buses and whether a taxi is needed)
- Mt. Amakazari🔥 Trending🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:30 / No transfers
- Mount Kinpoku🔥 Trending🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Bandai🟡 Access: ModerateSeasonal bus
- Mt. Ibuki🟡 Access: ModerateDirect hiking bus / Seasonal bus
- Mt. Daisen🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Yōtei⚠️ Access: Plan aheadFirst bus reaches trailhead by 7:17 / No transfers / Seasonal bus
- Mt. Takao🟢 Access: Easy
- Mt. Asama🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Aso🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Haku🟡 Access: ModerateDirect hiking bus / Seasonal bus
- Mt. Senjōgatake🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 6:35 / No transfers / Seasonal bus
- Mt. Tanigawa🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:45 / No transfers
- Mt. Tate🟡 Access: ModerateSeasonal bus
- Mt. Arafune⚠️ Access: Plan ahead
- Mt. Tsurugi🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Poroshiri🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 4:50 / No transfers / Seasonal bus
- Mt. Akagi🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:53 / No transfers / Direct hiking bus
- Mt. Takachihonomine🟡 Access: ModerateFirst bus reaches trailhead by 9:29 / No transfers
- Mt. Cho🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 5:40 / No transfers / Direct hiking bus / Seasonal bus
- Mt. Kamuiekuuchikaushi🟡 Access: Moderate
Popular in Hokkaidō this week
- Mt. Yōtei⚠️ Access: Plan aheadFirst bus reaches trailhead by 7:17 / No transfers / Seasonal bus
- Mt. Poroshiri🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 4:50 / No transfers / Seasonal bus
- Mt. Kamuiekuuchikaushi🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Daisetsuzan / Asahi-dake🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:54 / No transfers
- Niseko Annupuri⚠️ Access: Plan ahead
- Mt. Rishiri🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Tokachi🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 7:33 / No transfers
- Mt. Ashibetsu🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Nipesotsu⚠️ Access: Plan ahead
- Mt. Rausu⚠️ Access: Plan aheadFirst bus reaches trailhead by 9:26 / 1 transfer(s) / Seasonal bus
- Mt. Shokanbetsu⚠️ Access: Plan ahead
- Mt. Ishikari⚠️ Access: Plan ahead
Popular in Tōhoku this week
- Mt. Bandai🟡 Access: ModerateSeasonal bus
- Mt. Hiuchi🟡 Access: ModerateSeasonal bus
- Mt. Hakkōda🟡 Access: ModerateSeasonal bus
- Mt. Akita-Komagatake🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 6:26 / No transfers / Seasonal bus
- Mt. Iwaki🟡 Access: ModerateSeasonal bus
- Mt. Izumigatake🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Issaikyō⚠️ Access: Plan aheadDirect hiking bus / Seasonal bus
- Mt. Himekami⚠️ Access: Plan ahead
- Mt. Gassan⚠️ Access: Plan aheadSeasonal bus
- Hachimantai🟡 Access: ModerateSeasonal bus
- Mt. Moriyoshi⚠️ Access: Plan ahead
- Mt. Chōkai🟡 Access: ModerateDirect hiking bus / Seasonal bus
Popular in Kantō this week
- Mt. Takao🟢 Access: Easy
- Mt. Tanigawa🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:45 / No transfers
- Mt. Arafune⚠️ Access: Plan ahead
- Mt. Akagi🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:53 / No transfers / Direct hiking bus
- Mt. Kinunuma🟡 Access: ModerateSeasonal bus
- Mt. Haruna🟡 Access: ModerateSeasonal bus
- Mt. Tsukuba🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Mitake🟡 Access: ModerateFirst bus reaches trailhead by 7:36 / 1 transfer(s)
- Mt. Jinba🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 7:23 / No transfers
- Mt. Bonoore🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Sennokura🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 6:09 / No transfers
- Mt. Nantai🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 7:02 / No transfers
Popular in Chūbu this week
- Mt. Amakazari🔥 Trending🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:30 / No transfers
- Mount Kinpoku🔥 Trending🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Asama🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Haku🟡 Access: ModerateDirect hiking bus / Seasonal bus
- Mt. Senjōgatake🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 6:35 / No transfers / Seasonal bus
- Mt. Tate🟡 Access: ModerateSeasonal bus
- Mt. Tsurugi🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Cho🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 5:40 / No transfers / Direct hiking bus / Seasonal bus
- Mt. Neko🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:03 / No transfers
- Mt. Fuji - Yoshida Trailhead🟡 Access: ModerateDirect hiking bus
- Mt. Mitsutoge🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Karamatsu🟡 Access: ModerateDirect hiking bus / Seasonal bus
Popular in Kansai this week
- Mt. Ibuki🟡 Access: ModerateDirect hiking bus / Seasonal bus
- Mt. Kongo🟡 Access: ModerateDirect hiking bus
- Mt. Hiei⚠️ Access: Plan ahead
- Mt. Gozaisho🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Rokko🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Iwawaki🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Ponpon🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Ōmine🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Kuroso🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Atago🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Odaigahara⚠️ Access: Plan aheadSeasonal bus
- Mt. Gomadan🟡 Access: ModerateFirst bus reaches trailhead by 10:50 / No transfers / Seasonal bus
Popular in Chūgoku this week
- Mt. Daisen🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Sanbe🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:00 / No transfers
- Mt. Kamihiruzen🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:27 / No transfers
- Mt. Nagi⚠️ Access: Plan ahead
Popular in Kyūshū this week
- Mt. Aso🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Takachihonomine🟡 Access: ModerateFirst bus reaches trailhead by 9:29 / No transfers
- Mt. Kaimon🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Fukuchi🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Miyanoura🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mount Tachu⚠️ Access: Plan ahead
- Mt. Kujū🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:14 / No transfers / Seasonal bus
- Mount Taisen⚠️ Access: Plan ahead
- Mount Katamuki⚠️ Access: Plan ahead
- Mt. Waita🟡 Access: Moderate
- Mt. Tara⚠️ Access: Plan ahead
- Mt. Kirishima🟢 Access: EasyFirst bus reaches trailhead by 8:56 / No transfers
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