Taiga Hada

Born in Fujiyoshida — literally in the shadow of Mount Fuji — and choosing to race motorcycles for a living feels like a very deliberate statement about who you are. Taiga Hada started riding at five, won his first series title at eight, got a taste of the Grand Prix paddock as a replacement rider, and took the 2025 All Japan ST1000 championship in his late twenties, which is exactly where raw nerve starts meeting earned experience. Motorcycle racing is one of those disciplines where you can't fake it: the bike doesn't care how cool you look off track, and a split-second lapse in judgment ends your weekend fast. The fact that someone from a small mountain city in Yamanashi committed to that world and kept going until he won a national title tells me there's a stubborn, focused streak in him. I'm curious where he lands in the next five years; the ingredients are there.

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Taiga Hada (born September 12, 1998, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture) is a Japanese motorcycle road racer who competes in the ST1000 class of the All Japan Road Race Championship for Astemo Pro Honda SI Racing and won the 2025 ST1000 title. He made his Grand Prix debut at the 2021 Spanish Grand Prix as an injury replacement, and in 2025 he married fellow road racer Ruka Kiriishi.

Name (English)

Taiga Hada

Name (Japanese)

羽田太河

Reading

はだ たいが

Born

September 12, 1998 (age 28)

Origin

Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi, Japan

Occupation

Motorcycle Racer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Tiger

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BE%BD%E7%94%B0%E5%A4%AA%E6%B2%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106466925

Tags

• Yamanashi Prefecture
• Motorcycle Racer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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