Japan’s Mountains by Train & Bus

The finest peak in southern Hokkaido, celebrated for its imposing seaside silhouette rising from the Japan Sea and its summit flower meadows.

A three-summited mountain in the Ushiro-Tateyama range whose south-facing slopes erupt with Komaкusa and Hakusan Furo in early summer.

The northernmost peak of the Kiso range, a forest-clad sacred mountain with stone Buddhas and buried-sutra traditions.

An Ushiro-Tateyama peak famous for its Komaкusa colony, where the approach from Ōzawa opens to a full northern-Alps panorama.

An isolated peak that forms one of the Nikko Sanzan trio, with a majestic panorama over Senjōgahara wetland and Lake Chūzenji.

A celebrated peak along Tanigawa's jagged ridge, colored by autumn foliage and early-summer wildflowers.

An elegant isolated peak shaped like a wide-brimmed hat, known above all for the unforgettable sunset Yari-Hotaka view from the mountain hut.

A high tri-prefecture-border peak on the ridge to Sukurodake, sweeping Yari, Hotaka, and the Kurobe headwaters in one view.