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 twin-peaked sacred mountain celebrated in the Man'yōshū, with a 360-degree view of the Kanto Plain from both Nantai-san and Nyotai-san.
A famous viewpoint linked to the Kintoki legend, spreading a grand panorama of Fuji and the Hakone outer caldera from the summit.
A layered caldera volcano and one of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains, where Joshu's cold winds herald clear-sky summit views.
The highest peak in Ibaraki Prefecture, a sacred mountain where the Yamizo-mine Shrine at the top and Nichirin-ji at the eighth station add pilgrimage flavor.
A low but relentlessly rocky Gunma peak, with fixed chains and multiple approach routes including the famous Mitsuwaiwa Corridor.
The highest of the Okutama Sanzan, traversing fine Buna forest past Mittō-no-Ōtaki falls to a view of Fuji from the west summit.
A twin-peaked mountain offering a 360-degree panorama, stunning in autumn when rock walls and foliage create dramatic contrasts.
A local mountain near Utsunomiya with over 100 routes, offering rocky scrambles and Nikko range views year-round.
The highest peak in the Kanto region, famous for Shirane Aoi flowers, reachable by ropeway to 2,000 m for a 3,000-meter summit.
A Nikko sacred mountain requiring a relentless 1,200-meter ascent from Lake Chūzenji, crowned by Futarasan Shrine's inner sanctum.
A table-top mountain shaped like an upturned ship, dominated by the 200-meter cliff face of Tomosohiwa.
One of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains in the Joshu highlands, cloaked in primeval Buna and Dake-Kaнba forest with outstanding autumn color.
A Gunma–Nagano border peak offering views as far as Asama and the northern Alps, alive with Rengeツツジ in early summer.
An ancient sacred mountain of the Oku-Chichibu ridge, its iconic Gojōiwa pillar towering above, with views to the southern Alps and Yatsugatake.
A triple-peak Okutama ridge linking mountain temples and rocky crests, beautiful in spring greenery and autumn foliage.
A grassland viewpoint symbolized by its white horse statue, spreading a grand panorama of Fuji, Tanzawa, and the southern Alps.
A serpentine-rock Oze mountain welcoming hikers with rare alpine flora including the endemic Ōze-sō found nowhere else.
An Okutama favorite with a celebrated approach past the Hyakujin Falls and through river-carved gorge scenery.
🔥 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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