Japan’s Mountains by Train & Bus

A broad plateau of vast alpine wetlands and bog pools, also celebrated for the dragon-eye snowmelt mirror of Kagami-numa.

The highest peak in the Kitakami Mountains, a flower mountain with over 200 alpine species including the endemic Hayachine Edelweiss.

A peak in the Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views with views of Fuji, tied to the legend of Momotarō.

A Tohoku mountain incomparable in autumn, when its slopes transform into three layers of color in late September, earning the title of the divine carpet.

A revered sport-climbing destination of granite cliffs, with an unobstructed Fuji view from the Kaiun summit.

A gentle woodland peak above the Sanatsugi Shrine, with seasonal nature all the way up and a view of the Nagoya cityscape from the top.

A graceful isolated peak called the Dewa Fuji, home to over 330 alpine plant species including several found nowhere else.

A double-crater volcano ringed by peaks including Haruna Fuji and Kadombogadake, steeped in mountain worship history.

Tohoku's highest peak, representing Oze with wild volcanic terrain and vast wetland vistas, one of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains.

A flower mountain home to over 1,300 plant species and steeped in Yamato Takeru legend, with panoramic Lake Biwa views.

The highest peak in western Japan, a spiritual mountain famous for fixed-chain cliff faces and, in clear weather, views across the Seto Inland Sea.

A peak that shifts from forest to meadow to rocky ridge, capped by the chain-fixed Otori-iwa just below the summit.

One of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains in Chichibu with a jagged rocky ridge and Shugendo history, lit by Akayashio in spring and foliage in autumn.

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

A pyramid-shaped peak holding one of Japan's three great snowfields, where summer visitors still crunch across Harinoki Daisekkei.

One of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains in the Oku-Chichibu, its primeval forest cradling the headwaters of three river systems, vivid with Shakunage in season.

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

The Rishiri Fuji rising from the sea, a treasury of alpine plants with the island-ringed ocean as an extraordinary backdrop.