The Asagiri class is equipped for combat and interception missions and is primarily armed with anti-ship weapons.

She also carries Mk-32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes (SVTT), which can be used as an anti-submarine weapon.

In 2008 and 2011, she participated in a practice voyage to the ocean with the training ship JS Kashima.

In late August 2019, she took over the mission of JS Sazanami, and, on 1 September on her way back to Japan, she stopped at Muscat, the capital of Oman in the Middle East and conducted tactical movements and communication & goodwill training with the Omani patrol boat Al Seeb in the waters around the country.

Joint training with the Philippine Navy corvette BRP Emilio Jacinto was held from 24–26 September.