Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (日本奥地紀行, Nihon Okuchi Kikō) is a book by the English travel writer Isabella Bird, in the form of letters to her sister, describing her journey from Tokyo to Hokkaido in 1878,[1] when she was 46.

Bird became interested in Japan after reading John Francis Campbell's My Circular Notes (1876).

Campbell walked the Nakasendo postway through the Japanese Highlands, whereas Bird headed for the northern areas less affected by the new government.

The book recounts how Bird made the journey with a Japanese interpreter named Ito, visiting places that few or no Westerners had seen before, between June and September 1878.

It records in great detail her responses to Japanese houses, clothing and customs, and the natural environment, as they were during the early years of the Meiji Restoration.