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 2019 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
	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	Kihachi Enomoto *	2,314
16	Morimichi Takagi *	2,274
17	Kazuhiro Yamauchi *	2,271
18	Katsuo Osugi *	2,228
19	Yasunori Oshima	2,204
20	Takahiro Arai	2,203
21	Tsutomu Wakamatsu *	2,173
22	Seiichi Uchikawa	2,171
23	Atsunori Inaba	2,167
24	Yoshinori Hirose	2,157
	Koji Akiyama *	2,157
26	Shinya Miyamoto	2,133
27	Shinnosuke Abe	2,132
28	Kazuhiro Kiyohara	2,122
29	Michihiro Ogasawara	2,120
30	Tomonori Maeda	2,119
31	Motonobu Tanishige	2,108
32	Norihiro Nakamura	2,101
33	Atsuya Furuta *	2,097
34	Makoto Matsubara	2,095
35	Kazuo Matsui	2,090
36	Takashi Toritani	2,085
37	Hiroyuki Yamazaki	2,081
38	Taira Fujita	2,064
39	Kenichi Yazawa	2,062
40	Michiyo Arito	2,057
	Shinichi Eto *	2,057
42	Hideji Katō	2,055
43	Kazuhiro Wada	2,050
44	Masahiro Araki	2,045
45	Hiroki Kokubo	2,041
46	Hiromasa Arai	2,038
47	Kenjiro Nomura	2,020
48	Isao Shibata	2,018
49	Alex Ramírez	2,017
50	Yukio Tanaka	2,012
51	Norihiro Komada	2,006
52	Kazuya Fukuura	2,000

External links

• Career Batting Data from Japanese Star Players, BaseballGuru.com

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