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.

Stats updated as of end of 2025 season. Rank Player Hits1 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 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

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References

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