List of Nippon Professional Baseball career hits leaders

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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

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* Denotes elected to Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.
Bold Denotes active player.[a]
  • 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

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Notes

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  1. ^ A player is considered inactive if he has announced his retirement or not played for a full season.

References

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