Over a long career that has brought him nearly to 3,000 hits, Ichiro Suzuki has visited the National Baseball Hall of Fame six times, always in the off-season and as unobtrusively as one of the greatest hitters in baseball history can be when he ventures to the village of Cooperstown, N.Y., with a small entourage. Sometimes he is there on a day trip; sometimes he stays overnight.

“It’s a special place,” said Allen Turner, his interpreter. “He said you have to be there to really understand why he keeps going back.”

Suzuki made his first visit to the Hall after his rookie year, in 2001, the first of 10 consecutive seasons with the Seattle Mariners in which he had at least 200 hits. He returned to Cooperstown most recently in 2013, after his second season with the Yankees. Now with the Miami Marlins, he is hitting .341 as a part-time player and had raised his career hit total to 2,996 as of Friday. He will be at Marlins Park on Sunday, playing the Mets, when Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza are to be inducted into the Hall.

Suzuki’s tours have taken him through the museum, where he saw an exhibit that celebrated his single-season record of 262 hits in 2004. He has looked at old documents in the library and examined historic equipment in the climate-controlled archive that stores the trove of artifacts that are not displayed. Suzuki has donated many of his artifacts to the Hall and has pledged to eventually bequeath his entire collection.