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.[lower-alpha 1]
  • Stats updated as of October 6, 2018.
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 Atsunori Inaba 2,167
23 Yoshinori Hirose 2,157
Koji Akiyama * 2,157
25 Shinya Miyamoto 2,133
26 Kazuhiro Kiyohara 2,122
27 Michihiro Ogasawara 2,120
28 Tomonori Maeda 2,119
29 Motonobu Tanishige 2,108
30 Norihiro Nakamura 2,101
31 Atsuya Furuta * 2,097
32 Makoto Matsubara 2,095
33 Kazuo Matsui 2,089
34 Shinnosuke Abe 2,084
35 Hiroyuki Yamazaki 2,081
36 Takashi Toritani 2,065
37 Taira Fujita 2,064
38 Kenichi Yazawa 2,062
39 Michiyo Arito 2,057
Shinichi Eto * 2,057
41 Hideji Katō 2,055
42 Kazuhiro Wada 2,050
43 Seiichi Uchikawa 2,043
Masahiro Araki 2,043
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
  1. ↑ A player is considered inactive if he has announced his retirement or not played for a full season.

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