Kaede Hashimoto

Kaede Hashimoto is one of those quietly intriguing figures where the resume — model, singer, talent, all three at once — tells you she refuses to be put in a box, and honestly that's the most interesting thing about her. Born January 21, 1997, in Kanagawa, she's squarely in the generation that grew up with the internet as a given and social media as a natural extension of self-expression, so the fact that she's building her presence on Instagram and X feels less like strategy and more like breathing. She came up through Idoling!!! as a twelve-year-old in 2009, and that long run keeps me curious, and in this industry, curiosity from the audience is half the battle.

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Kaede Hashimoto is a Japanese model, singer, and talent born on January 21, 1997, in Kanagawa Prefecture. She works across three fields — modeling, music, and general entertainment — making her one of the multi-faceted performers of her generation. She maintains an active social media presence on Instagram and X under the handle kaede_h0121. She was a member of the idol group Idoling!!! from 2009 to 2015 and of the units ChocoLe and Bitter Chocolate; her younger sister Ruka Hashimoto was also in Idoling!!!.

Name (English)

Kaede Hashimoto

Name (Japanese)

橋本楓

Reading

はしもと かえで

Born

January 21, 1997 (age 29)

Origin

Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

161 cm

Occupation

Model / Singer / Talent

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Ox

Blood type

A

Works summary

Appearances

75 (2009–2022)

By year (titles with a known year)

2009: 7, 2010: 12, 2011: 1, 2012: 4, 2013: 9, 2014: 7, 2015: 4, 2016: 6, 2017: 14, 2018: 1, 2020: 1, 2022: 4, year unknown: 5

Debut work

Start! 〜1stめーぷる〜

Filmography / notable works

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kaede_h0121/
• Xhttps://x.com/kaede_h0121
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A9%8B%E6%9C%AC%E6%A5%93
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4923630

Tags

• From Kanagawa Prefecture
• Model
• Singer
• Talent

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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