100 Famous Japanese Mountains

100 Famous Japanese Mountains
Book cover, English version
AuthorKyūya Fukada
Original title日本百名山
TranslatorMartin Hood
LanguageJapanese, translated in English
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
Publication date
1964
Published in English
31 December 2014
ISBN978-0824836771
Mount Fuji (3,776 m) from Asagiri-kōgen

100 Famous Japanese Mountains (日本百名山, Nihon Hyaku-meizan) is a book written in 1964 by mountaineer and author Kyūya Fukada.[1] The list has been the topic of NHK documentaries, and other hiking books. An English edition, One Hundred Mountains of Japan, translated by Martin Hood, was published in 2014 by the University of Hawaii Press (ISBN 9780824836771).[2]

The complete list (sorted into regions from northeast to southwest) is below.

  1. ^ Hyakumeizan, Hiking Japan! Archived 2007-01-09 at the Wayback Machine. Japan Gazetteer. Accessed June 27, 2008.
  2. ^ Catalogue record. Worldcat. OCLC 931532988.