Hitomi Honda

I have a soft spot for Hitomi Honda, honestly. Picture a kid from Tochigi who'd already made it as a Japanese idol, then voluntarily threw herself into a Korean survival show where she barely spoke the language and had to out-dance and out-sing strangers night after night. That takes a kind of nerve most people don't have at any age, let alone in your teens. What gets me is the contrast: she smiles like she wouldn't hurt a fly, but you don't survive that meat-grinder without serious spine. Bouncing between singing, acting, and modeling on top of it all just makes me root harder. There's a small-town warmth in her that the whole global-pop pressure-cooker never managed to sand off, and I find that genuinely lovely.

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Hitomi Honda is a Japanese singer, actress, and model born on October 6, 2001, in Tochigi City, Tochigi Prefecture. Standing 158 cm tall, she is a Libra by zodiac sign. She maintains active social media presences on Instagram and X. She joined AKB48 in 2014 and graduated in January 2024, was a member of the Korean-Japanese group IZ*ONE, and now leads the South Korean girl group SAY MY NAME.

Name (English)

Hitomi Honda

Name (Japanese)

本田仁美

Reading

ほんだ ひとみ

Born

October 6, 2001 (age 25)

Origin

Tochigi City, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan

Height

158 cm

Occupation

Singer / Actress / Model

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Snake

Blood type

A

Active years

2014 -

Debut

2014-4-3 / 2018-10-29

Works summary

Appearances

66 (2015–2026)

By year (titles with a known year)

2015: 3, 2016: 1, 2017: 4, 2018: 2, 2019: 1, 2020: 1, 2021: 6, 2022: 10, 2023: 9, 2024: 3, 2025: 5, 2026: 1, year unknown: 20

Debut work

とちテレ年末ワイド

Filmography / notable works

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/10_hitomi_06/
• Xhttps://x.com/hnd_htm__1006
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%AC%E7%94%B0%E4%BB%81%E7%BE%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56479085

Tags

• From Tochigi Prefecture
• Singer
• Actress
• Model

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.