Day Hikes from Tokyo by Train & Bus
These mountains near Tokyo can all be done as a day trip by train and bus — no car needed. From central Tokyo you can reach the trailhead in two to three hours, hike, and be back the same day. They range from easy, famous peaks like Mt. Takao to the more rewarding ridges of Tanzawa, Okutama and Chichibu.
Every guide gives you the route from the nearest station to the trailhead, with bus and taxi timetables verified against official schedules. On the map and list below — sorted by travel time from Tokyo — compare access, fitness and trail times to choose your next day hike.
Start here — Tokyo day-hike classics
Tokyo's most-loved beginner peak — a cable car and chairlift carry you partway up, and the summit frames Mt. Fuji and the city skyline. The world's most-climbed mountain.
A cable car climbs to a mountaintop shrine village, and the mossy Rock Garden ravine is the highlight — an easy taste of Okutama's deep nature.
Its grassy summit, marked by a white-horse statue, opens to a 360° panorama, and the classic ridge traverse to Mt. Takao starts right here.
The twin-peaked icon of the Kanto plain, paired in fame with Mt. Fuji. A cable car and ropeway make the sweeping lowland views easy to reach.
A cable car reaches the Afuri Shrine on this sacred peak, with views over Sagami Bay and Enoshima — plus the famous tofu along the temple approach.
A Hakone favorite from the Kintaro legend, with one of the finest head-on views of Mt. Fuji — and hot springs waiting after the descent.
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A grassland viewpoint symbolized by its white horse statue, spreading a grand panorama of Fuji, Tanzawa, and the southern Alps.
A low-mountain traverse linking Kenchōji to Zuisenji, blending the historic atmosphere of ancient Kamakura with ridge-top walking.
A welcoming waypoint on the traverse where the hut's naмeko soup and views of Lake Sagami and Fuji make it a favorite rest stop.
A quiet neighbor of Takaosan where cherry blossoms, autumn foliage, and a hut famous for nameko soup make every season pleasant.
A tranquil Tanzawa peak where early-summer Shiroyashio azaleas and rhododendrons bloom beneath a serene primeval Buna canopy.
A deep Oku-Tanzawa peak with a fine Buna forest interior and a glimpse of Fuji over the ridge, best experienced on the Inukoshi loop.
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 Tanzawa ridge peak where the mountain hut's legendary Nabewari udon noodles draw as many pilgrims as the summit view.
A rocky fortress with a Sengoku-era hilltop castle site, offering one of the Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views over the Katsura River valley and Fuji.
A mountain long cherished for its Musashi Mitake Shrine pilgrimage trail, with the Rock Garden gorge and vibrant seasonal scenery.
One of the Okutama Sanzan peaks with outstanding Kanto Plain views from the summit, colorful in autumn foliage and winter rime ice.
An Okutama mid-level mountain featuring one of Okutama's three great steep ridges, radiant in fresh greenery and autumn foliage.
An Okutama favorite with a celebrated approach past the Hyakujin Falls and through river-carved gorge scenery.
One of the Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views with a superb Fuji vista, popular also for the traverse to neighboring Momokurayama.
One of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains near the Afuri Shrine, perennially busy with pilgrims and hikers drawn by its flowers in every season.
A local mountain near Utsunomiya with over 100 routes, offering rocky scrambles and Nikko range views year-round.
One of the Shūrei Fugaku Twelve Views with an especially close Fuji vista, popular also for a traverse to neighboring Ōgurasazan.
One of the Okutama Sanzan trio, cloaked in natural Buna forest and carpeted with spectacular Katakuri blooms in spring.
A double-crater volcano ringed by peaks including Haruna Fuji and Kadombogadake, steeped in mountain worship history.
The Tanzawa flagship with sweeping views of Fuji and Sagami Bay, showing the range's varied character on the Ōkura Ridge and the Omote Ridge traverse.
A deep-gorge stream walk leads to sweeping Kanto Plain views at the summit, with rewarding autumn foliage in the Oku-Musashi hills.
The highest point of the Ashitaka range with close-up views of Mt. Fuji, and home to the endemic Ashitaka Rhododendron.
An ancient sacred mountain of the Oku-Chichibu ridge, its iconic Gojōiwa pillar towering above, with views to the southern Alps and Yatsugatake.
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.
A keystone of the Ishio Ridge traverse in Okutama, commanding a sweeping view of Fuji and the southern Alps.
The highest point of the Amago range, the best westward viewpoint for an unobstructed face-on view of Mt. Fuji.
A low quarry mountain and pilgrimage site where the Jigoku-nozoki cliff and monumental cliff Buddhas blur the line between sightseeing and hiking.
One of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains where an open ridge above Daibosatsu Pass reveals a grand panorama of Fuji and the southern Alps.
A twin-peaked limestone mountain whose high-exposure rocky ridge makes it one of the Kanto region's premier scrambles.
A highland plateau where massed Nikkō Day-lily colonies bloom in early summer and a sky corridor opens views of the Nikko range.
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.
One of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains rich in primeval Buna and Himeshara forest, Amagi Rhododendrons, and vibrant seasonal color.
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.
A peak that shifts from forest to meadow to rocky ridge, capped by the chain-fixed Otori-iwa just below the summit.
A Nasu volcano chain alive with eruption steam and autumn foliage, with a ropeway delivering hikers close to the summit.
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.
A revered sport-climbing destination of granite cliffs, with an unobstructed Fuji view from the Kaiun summit.
A mountain of extraordinary granite pillars and monoliths, vivid with Shakunage in early summer against views of Yatsugatake and the southern Alps.