List of Nippon Professional Baseball career hits leaders

Isao Harimoto holds the Japanese record for most career hits with 3085, and is the only player with more than 3000 hits in Japan.

Players with 2,000 or more hits

*	Denotes elected to Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.
Bold	Denotes active player.

• Stats updated as of end of 2023 season.

Rank	Player	Hits
1	Isao Harimoto *	3,085
2	Katsuya Nomura *	2,901
3	Sadaharu Oh *	2,786
4	Hiromitsu Kadota *	2,566
5	Yutaka Fukumoto *	2,543
5	Sachio Kinugasa *	2,543
7	Tomoaki Kanemoto *	2,539
8	Kazuyoshi Tatsunami *	2,480
9	Shigeo Nagashima *	2,471
10	Masahiro Doi	2,452
11	Takuro Ishii	2,432
12	Hiromitsu Ochiai *	2,371
13	Tetsuharu Kawakami *	2,351
14	Koji Yamamoto *	2,339
15	Hayato Sakamoto	2,321
16	Kihachi Enomoto *	2,314
17	Morimichi Takagi *	2,274
18	Kazuhiro Yamauchi *	2,271
19	Katsuo Osugi *	2,228
20	Yasunori Oshima	2,204
21	Takahiro Arai	2,203
22	Seiichi Uchikawa	2,186
23	Tsutomu Wakamatsu *	2,173
24	Atsunori Inaba	2,167
25	Yoshinori Hirose	2,157
25	Koji Akiyama *	2,157
27	Shinya Miyamoto	2,133
28	Shinnosuke Abe	2,132
29	Kazuhiro Kiyohara	2,122
30	Michihiro Ogasawara	2,120
30	Takumi Kuriyama	2,120
32	Tomonori Maeda	2,119
33	Motonobu Tanishige	2,108
34	Norihiro Nakamura	2,101
35	Takashi Toritani	2,099
36	Atsuya Furuta *	2,097
37	Makoto Matsubara	2,095
38	Kazuo Matsui	2,090
39	Hiroyuki Yamazaki	2,081
40	Taira Fujita	2,064
41	Kenichi Yazawa	2,062
42	Michiyo Arito	2,057
43	Shinichi Eto *	2,057
44	Hideji Katō	2,055
45	Kazuhiro Wada	2,050
46	Masahiro Araki	2,045
47	Hiroki Kokubo	2,041
48	Hiromasa Arai	2,038
49	Yohei Oshima	2,021
50	Kenjiro Nomura	2,020
51	Isao Shibata	2,018
52	Alex Ramírez *	2,017
53	Yukio Tanaka	2,012
54	Norihiro Komada	2,006
55	Kazuya Fukuura	2,000

See also

• List of Nippon Professional Baseball players with 1,000 runs batted in
• List of Nippon Professional Baseball earned run average champions
• Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award
• List of KBO Career Hits leaders

External links

• Career Batting Data from Japanese Star Players
• NPB Official Site (Japanese)
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