List of Nippon Professional Baseball career hits leaders

Listed are all Nippon Professional Baseball players who have reached the 2,000 hit milestone during their career in NPB. Isao Harimoto holds the Japanese record for most career hits with 3,085 and is the only player with more than 3,000 hits in Japan; he had his 3,000th hit on May 28, 1980 for the Lotte Orions.

Players with 2,000 or more hits

* Denotes elected to Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.
Bold Denotes active player.[a]
  • Stats updated as of end of 2025 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 Hayato Sakamoto 2,447
12 Takuro Ishii 2,432
13 Hiromitsu Ochiai * 2,371
14 Tetsuharu Kawakami * 2,351
15 Koji Yamamoto * 2,339
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 Takumi Kuriyama 2,150
28 Shinya Miyamoto 2,133
29 Shinnosuke Abe 2,132
30 Kazuhiro Kiyohara 2,122
31 Michihiro Ogasawara 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 Yohei Oshima 2,067
41 Taira Fujita 2,064
42 Kenichi Yazawa 2,062
43 Michiyo Arito 2,057
44 Shinichi Eto * 2,057
45 Hideji Katō 2,055
46 Kazuhiro Wada 2,050
47 Masahiro Araki 2,045
48 Hideto Asamura 2,043
49 Hiroki Kokubo 2,041
50 Hiromasa Arai 2,038
51 Kenjiro Nomura 2,020
52 Isao Shibata 2,018
53 Alex Ramírez * 2,017
54 Yukio Tanaka 2,012
55 Norihiro Komada 2,006
56 Kazuya Fukuura 2,000

See also

Notes

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

References

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