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