Japan's 100 Famous Mountains

About this book

Fukada Kyūya told you why these mountains matter. This guide tells you everything else.

In 1964, novelist and mountaineer Fukada Kyūya chose the One Hundred Famous Mountains of Japan — the Nihon Hyaku-meizan — and created the most beloved checklist in Japanese climbing. His essays (in English as One Hundred Mountains of Japan) are pure literature: character, history and longing, but no elevations, no coordinates, no practical data at all.

This is the missing companion: a complete field guide to all 100 summits, in Fukada's order, from Rishiri's island cone off Hokkaido to Miyanoura above the ancient cedar forests of Yakushima. Every chapter opens with a verified data panel — surveyed elevation in metres and feet, summit coordinates, prefectures, mountain range and park designation — followed by one licensed photograph and the mountain's story.

Fifty of the hundred stand in the Japan Alps and the Chūbu ranges; nine crown Hokkaido's volcanoes; the lowest, Tsukuba, rises just 877 metres and has been famous for twelve centuries. Whether you are planning a traverse of the hundred, a single climb on your Japan journey, or an armchair ascent, this is the most complete single-volume English field guide to the list.

Inside: all 100 summits · verified data panels · 100 licensed photographs · an introduction to Fukada and the list · seasons, weather and safety background · a complete at-a-glance table of the hundred.

Written and created in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu. Published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, a Japanese publisher in Hokkaido, Japan. Authentic Japanese content, carefully made in Japan — not mass-produced.