The 2024–25 Japan Figure Skating Championships were held in Kadoma, Osaka on December 19–22, 2024. It was the 93rd edition of the event. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pairs, and ice dance. The results were part of the Japanese selection criteria for the 2025 Four Continents Championships and the 2025 World Championships.
Qualifying Competitors either qualified at regional and sectional competitions, held from September to November 2024, or earned a bye.
Date Event Type Location Results September 20–23, 2024 Tokyo Regional Funabashi, Chiba Details September 21–23, 2024 Chubu Nagoya, Aichi Details September 26–29, 2024 Kanto Nikkō, Tochigi Details Kinki Takaishi, Osaka Details October 4–6, 2024 Tohoku-Hokkaido Sapporo, Hokkaido Details October 3–6, 2024 Chu-Shikoku-Kyushu Kurashiki, Okayama Details October 18–20, 2024 Japan Novice Championships Final Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture Details October 24–27, 2024 Eastern Section Sectional Hachinohe, Aomori Details November 1–4, 2024 Western Section Nagoya, Aichi Details November 15–17, 2024 Japan Junior Championships Final Hiroshima, Hishoma Details December 19–22, 2024 Japan Championships Kadoma, Osaka Details
Medal summary Senior Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men Yuma Kagiyama Rio Nakata Tatsuya Tsuboi Women Kaori Sakamoto Mao Shimada Wakaba Higuchi Pairs Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi Sae Shimizu / Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda Ice dance Utana Yoshida / Masaya Morita Azusa Tanaka / Shingo Nishiyama Ayano Sasaki / Yoshimitsu Ikeda
Junior Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men Rio Nakata Sena Takahashi Taiga Nishino Women Mao Shimada Kaoruko Wada Ikura Kushida Pairs Sae Shimizu / Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda No other competitors Ice dance Sara Kishimoto / Atsuhiko Tamura Sumire Yoshida / Ibuki Ogahara Kaho Yamashita / Yuto Nagata
Entries Names with an asterisk (*) denote junior skaters.
Men Women Pairs Ice dance Shuntaro Asaga* Yuna Aoki Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara Mia Kuneshita / Seiya Alec Roueche Daiya Ebihara* Mone Chiba Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi Ayano Sasaki / Yoshimitsu Ikeda Haruki Honda Maria Egawa Sae Shimizu / Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda* Azusa Tanaka / Shingo Nishiyama Yuma Kagiyama Wakaba Higuchi Miyu Yunoki / Tristan Taylor Utana Yoshida / Masaya Morita Haru Kakiuchi* Kiri Hirakane Takeru Amine Kataise Ayumi Kagotani Ryusei Kikuchi Mana Kawabe Yuto Kishina Ikura Kushida* Ryota Kitamura Rino Matsuike Shun Kobayashi Mai Mihara Shunya Matsuoka Saki Miyake Kao Miura Haruna Murakami* Sena Miyake Chiyono Nagami Ryoto Mori* Ami Nakai* Shunsuke Nakamura Miyabi Oba Rio Nakata* Mayuko Oka* Taiga Nishino* Mei Okada* Nobunari Oda Yurina Okuno Kosho Oshima Chikako Saigusa Shun Sato Kaori Sakamoto Koshiro Shimada Mao Shimada* Takumi Sugiyama Yuna Shiraiwa Sena Takahashi* Rion Sumiyoshi Haruto Toda Mai Takahashi Kazuki Tomono Rena Uezono* Tatsuya Tsuboi Kaoruko Wada* Shun Uemura* Rinka Watanabe Ryushin Yamada Mako Yamashita Sōta Yamamoto Hana Yoshida Nozomu Yoshioka
Junior The top eight finishers at the Japan Junior Championships in men's and women's singles were added to the Japan Championships.
Men Women Pairs 1 Rio Nakata Mao Shimada Sae Shimizu / Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda 2 Sena Takahashi Kaoruko Wada 3 Taiga Nishino Ikura Kushida 4 Shun Uemura Ami Nakai 5 Shuntaro Asago Rena Uezono 6 Haru Kakiuchi Haruna Murakami 7 Ryoto Mori Mayuko Oka 8 Daiya Ebihara Mei Okada
Results Men +Men's results Rank Name Total points SP FS 1 Yuma Kagiyama 297.73 1 92.05 1 205.68 2 Rio Nakata 263.99 2 90.31 2 173.68 3 Tatsuya Tsuboi 247.31 14 73.94 3 173.37 4 Nobunari Oda 234.68 5 84.53 6 150.15 5 Kazuki Tomono 233.95 3 89.72 8 144.23 6 Sena Miyake 233.49 11 75.16 4 158.33 7 Shun Sato 230.80 6 81.90 7 148.90 8 Kao Miura 230.09 4 88.87 9 141.22 9 Koshiro Shimada 224.04 15 73.20 5 150.84 10 Sōta Yamamoto 217.09 7 80.10 12 136.99 11 Shunsuke Nakamura 214.25 13 73.96 10 140.29 12 Taiga Nishino 213.07 9 77.58 14 135.49 13 Takeru Amine Kataise 212.78 10 75.62 11 137.16 14 Sena Takahashi 209.79 8 77.87 17 131.92 15 Takumi Sugiyama 208.75 16 72.93 13 135.82 16 Kosho Oshima 206.99 12 74.37 16 132.62 17 Haru Kakiuchi 203.27 17 70.52 15 132.75 18 Shuntaro Asaga 199.33 19 67.58 18 131.75 19 Daiya Ebihara 192.81 20 64.66 19 128.15 20 Yuto Kishina 191.05 18 68.84 21 122.21 21 Shun Uemura 185.97 23 62.47 20 123.50 22 Nozomu Yoshioka 181.29 21 63.76 22 117.53 23 Ryusei Kikuchi 169.29 22 62.77 23 106.52 24 Ryushin Yamada 146.49 24 60.20 24 86.29 Did not advance to free skating 25 Ryota Kitamura 58.91 25 58.91 colspan=2 26 Shunya Matsuoka 53.48 26 53.48 colspan=2 27 Haruto Toda 53.34 27 53.34 colspan=2 28 Ryoto Mori 50.32 28 50.32 colspan=2 29 Haruki Honda 50.14 29 50.14 colspan=2 30 Shun Kobayashi 45.96 30 45.96 colspan=2
Women +Women's results Rank Name Total points SP FS 1 Kaori Sakamoto 228.68 1 78.92 1 149.76 2 Mao Shimada 219.00 2 75.58 2 143.42 3 Wakaba Higuchi 206.40 4 71.05 3 135.35 4 Mone Chiba 205.69 3 74.72 7 130.97 5 Rino Matsuike 204.00 5 70.79 5 133.21 6 Mako Yamashita 200.25 12 65.13 4 135.12 7 Rinka Watanabe 198.55 11 65.96 6 132.59 8 Rion Sumiyoshi 197.53 7 69.58 11 127.95 9 Saki Miyake 196.55 8 68.54 9 128.01 10 Kaoruko Wada 195.63 10 66.70 8 128.93 11 Hana Yoshida 195.27 9 68.42 13 126.85 12 Yuna Aoki 194.07 6 70.07 14 124.00 13 Mana Kawabe 190.23 14 62.25 10 127.98 14 Ikura Kushida 187.14 13 64.46 16 122.68 15 Ami Nakai 182.50 21 55.20 12 127.30 16 Mayuko Oka 181.82 17 60.71 17 121.11 17 Haruna Murakami 180.21 19 57.26 15 122.95 18 Mei Okada 179.76 16 61.28 19 118.48 19 Yuna Shiraiwa 178.72 18 59.00 18 119.72 20 Maria Egawa 173.93 15 61.29 20 112.64 21 Miyabi Oba 163.19 20 57.03 21 106.16 22 Kiri Hirakane 149.42 22 51.96 23 97.46 23 Chiyono Nagami 149.22 24 51.06 22 98.16 Mai Mihara 23 51.94 colspan=2 Did not advance to free skating 25 Ayumi Kagotani 49.52 25 49.52 colspan=2 26 Rena Uezono 48.08 26 48.08 colspan=2 27 Mai Takahashi 46.43 27 46.43 colspan=2 28 Chikako Saigusa 45.12 28 45.12 colspan=2 29 Yurina Okuno 44.17 29 44.17 colspan=2
Pairs +Pairs results Rank Name Total points SP FS 1 Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara 212.33 1 74.16 1 138.17 2 Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi 176.68 2 61.82 2 114.86 3 Sae Shimizu / Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda 136.72 3 54.22 3 82.50 4 Miyu Yunoki / Tristan Taylor 126.81 4 46.75 4 80.06
Ice dance +Ice dance results Rank Name Total points RD FD 1 Utana Yoshida / Masaya Morita 176.21 1 71.84 1 104.37 2 Azusa Tanaka / Shingo Nishiyama 168.92 2 66.03 2 102.89 3 Ayano Sasaki / Yoshimitsu Ikeda 141.09 3 55.53 3 85.56 4 Mia Kuneshita / Seiya Alec Roueche 100.19 4 36.62 4 63.57
Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships The 2024–25 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships were held in Hiroshima, Hiroshima from November 15–17, 2024. The national champions in men's and women's singles earned automatic berths on the 2025 World Junior Championships. Top finishers in men's and women's singles were invited to compete at the senior Japan Championships in December.
Entries Names with an asterisk (*) denote novice skaters. Men Women Pairs Ice dance Shuntaro Asaga Miku Enomoto* Sae Shimizu / Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda Sara Kishimoto / Atsuhiko Tamura Daiya Ebihara Yurika Imazeki Mie Nakajima / Eisuke Kumano Taiga Hara* Aiko Iwamoto Ayumi Shibayama / Tomoki Kimura Haruhisa Hidaka* Sumika Kanazawa* Kaho Yamashita / Yuto Nagata Iori Horino* Reina Kawakatsu Sumire Yoshida / Ibuki Ogahara Ryu Ikeda Riria Kono Hiroto Ishihara Ikura Kushida Tachi Isowa Hikari Matsunami Haru Kakiuchi Shigeta Mihoshi Soto Koyama Karin Miyazaki* Yuki Matsumoto Haruna Murakami Ryoto Mori Ami Nakai Ryoga Morimoto Ayumi Nakao Kazuhiro Nagura Yuko Ohno Rio Nakata Mayuko Oka Taiga Nishino Mei Okada Masato Obayashi Saho Otake Ibuki Ogahara Hono Segawa Hiroyoshi Ogata Aiwa Shimada Hayato Okazaki Mao Shimada Riku Sakuma* Umi Sugimoto Haruto Sasaki Nana Sugiyama Kazuna Sato Hana Suzuki Tsudoi Suto Yo Takagi Minato Taguchi Hanaha Takeshima* Sena Takahashi Rena Uezono Reon Tanaka Kaoruko Wada Seigo Tauchi Kei Yamada Shun Uemura Hiroyuki Yokota Sakutaro Yoshino* Sumire Yoshida
Novice Top finishers at the Japan Novice Championships in men's and women's singles were added to the Japan Junior Championships.
Men Women1 Riku Sakuma Sumika Kanazawa2 Sakutaro Yoshino Karin Miyazaki3 Taiga Hara Miku Enomoto4 Haruhisa Hidaka Hanaha Takeshima
Results Junior men +Junior men's results Rank Name Total points SP FS 1 Rio Nakata 220.47 2 77.92 1 142.55 2 Sena Takahashi 212.99 1 79.28 4 133.71 3 Taiga Nishino 208.49 3 75.85 5 132.64 4 Shun Uemura 206.92 4 69.12 2 137.80 5 Shuntaro Asaga 201.00 6 65.25 3 135.75 6 Haru Kakiuchi 187.93 15 58.05 6 129.88 7 Ryoto Mori 67.63 5 117.19 10 184.82 8 Daiya Ebihara 184.23 8 63.50 8 120.73 9 Seigo Tauchi 183.29 11 61.18 7 122.11 10 Tsudoi Suto 179.84 7 64.34 12 115.50 11 Reon Tanaka 179.19 10 61.39 9 117.80 12 Ryu Ikeda 177.35 9 61.95 13 115.40 13 Ryoga Morimoto 172.84 18 55.87 11 116.97 14 Hiroyoshi Ogata 167.91 17 56.40 14 111.51 15 Soto Koyama 164.87 16 56.90 16 107.97 16 Hayato Okazaki 163.96 14 58.88 18 105.08 17 Taichi Isowa 163.28 13 60.27 20 103.01 18 Kazuhiro Nagura 160.98 22 52.92 15 108.06 19 Kazuna Sato 160.62 20 53.57 17 107.05 20 Yuki Matsumoto 157.27 23 52.21 19 105.06 21 Ibuki Ogahara 156.24 12 60.78 22 95.46 22 Hiroto Ishihara 152.15 19 54.39 21 97.76 23 Riku Sakuma 144.78 19 53.08 23 91.70 24 Haruto Sasaki 132.37 24 49.20 24 83.17 Did not advance to free skating 25 Haruhisa Hidaka 47.53 25 47.53 colspan=2 26 Taiga Hara 47.35 26 47.35 colspan=2 27 Minato Taguchi 46.78 27 46.78 colspan=2 28 Masato Obayashi 46.62 28 46.62 colspan=2 29 Sakutaro Yoshino 43.65 29 43.65 colspan=2 30 Iori Horino 42.01 30 42.01 colspan=2
Junior women +Junior women's results Rank Name Total points SP FS 1 Mao Shimada 201.32 1 72.69 1 128.63 2 Kaoruko Wada 190.17 2 66.40 4 123.77 3 Ikura Kushida 189.52 3 64.54 2 124.98 4 Ami Nakai 180.83 5 62.52 8 118.31 5 Rena Uezono 180.69 10 58.06 5 122.63 6 Haruna Murakami 177.59 8 59.06 7 118.53 7 Mayuko Oka 176.78 9 58.23 6 118.55 8 Mei Okada 174.51 21 49.72 3 124.79 9 Karin Miyazaki 172.77 6 60.60 10 112.17 10 Sumika Kanazawa 167.00 7 60.31 13 106.69 11 Kei Yamada 165.29 16 51.49 9 113.80 12 Saho Otake 162.26 11 57.51 15 104.75 13 Ayumi Nakao 160.90 12 54.36 14 106.54 14 Yo Takagi 160.48 14 52.82 11 107.66 15 Reina Kawakatsu 158.13 17 50.94 12 107.19 16 Hikari Matsunami 150.97 13 53.29 16 97.68 17 Riria Kono 150.17 4 62.58 21 87.59 18 Hiroyuki Yokota 143.87 15 51.56 19 92.31 19 Hana Suzuki 142.36 22 49.61 17 92.75 20 Sumire Yoshida 140.62 20 50.24 20 90.38 21 Aiko Iwamoto 140.11 24 47.59 18 92.52 22 Yurika Imazeki 133.95 18 50.78 22 83.17 23 Shigeta Mihoshi 126.75 23 48.39 23 78.36 24 Hono Segawa 122.47 19 50.32 24 72.15 Did not advance to free skating 25 Hanaha Takeshima 47.48 25 47.48 colspan=2 26 Yuko Ohno 47.20 26 47.20 colspan=2 27 Miku Enomoto 47.05 27 47.05 colspan=2 28 Aiwa Shimada 46.90 28 46.90 colspan=2 29 Umi Sugimoto 44.61 29 44.61 colspan=2 30 Nana Sugiyama 41.18 30 41.18 colspan=2
Junior pairs +Junior pairs results Rank Name Total points SP FS 1 Sae Shimizu / Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda 132.83 1 48.51 1 84.32
Junior ice dance +Junior ice dance results Rank Name Total points RD FD 1 Sara Kishimoto / Atsuhiko Tamura 146.17 1 58.73 1 87.44 2 Sumire Yoshida / Ibuki Ogahara 139.91 2 57.04 2 82.87 3 Kaho Yamashita / Yuto Nagata 137.22 3 54.97 3 82.25 4 Ayumi Shibayama / Tomoki Kimura 133.38 4 52.28 4 81.10 5 Mie Nakajima / Eisuke Kumano 103.55 5 40.24 5 63.31
International team selections Winter University Games The 2025 Winter World University Games were held in Turin, Italy from January 13–23, 2025.
Men Women 1 Yuma Kagiyama Mone Chiba 2 Shun Sato Rion Sumiyoshi 3 Kao Miura (withdrew) Hana Yoshida 1st alt. Sōta Yamamoto (called up) Rinka Watanabe 2nd alt. Tatsuya Tsuboi Rino Matsuike 3rd alt. Koshiro Shimada Saki Miyake
Asian Winter Games