Japan’s Mountains by Train & Bus

A revered Shugendo mountain in the southern Ōmine range, graced by a bronze Shakyamuni statue, sweeping Ōmine views, and spring Shiroyashio.

One of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains and an active volcano world-famous for its emerald crater lake Okama and winter snow monsters.

One of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains in Fukushima, where a gondola lifts you effortlessly into flowering alpine terrain.

The sacred headquarters of all Atago shrines nationwide, a spiritual mountain in Kyoto where the Sennichi-mairi pilgrimage marks summer.

One of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains known as the Aizu Fuji, whose great eruption created the mystical Goshiki-numa lakes.

A Tohoku classic with Japan's finest wetland-and-foliage scenery at Kenashinotai, and a soak in Sukayu Onsen waiting at the descent.

A Kansai peak topped by a pampas-grass summit plateau with big views over the Osaka Plain and Osaka Bay, and Katakuri blooms in spring.

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

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

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.

One of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains in Shikoku, with a broad grassy summit of Miyama Kumazasa that gives an open, sky-high sense of freedom.

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

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.

The graceful Tsugaru Fuji and sacred heart of Tsugaru, with the Iwakisan Shrine inner sanctum enshrined at the summit.

A popular Ushiro-Tateyama peak reached by the Alpine Line, where the Hakuba trio and the treacherous Kaeri-no-Ken ridge steal the show.

An ancient sacred mountain of the Oku-Chichibu ridge, its iconic Gojōiwa pillar towering above, with views to the southern Alps and Yatsugatake.

An accessible one of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains with sweeping Nikkō Day-lilies, Rengeツツジ, autumn grasses, and high wetland.