Completed and commissioned in February 1945, she served during the final months of World War II, conducting a supply run and operating on radar picket duty.
[4] She got underway from Kure, Japan, on 16 April 1945 for her first supply run, bound for Minamidaitōjima in the Daitō Islands southeast of Okinawa.
[4] After arriving there, she unloaded her cargo, embarked stranded Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilots for transportation to Japan, and quickly departed for her return voyage, reaching Kure on 22 April 1945.
1, and she departed Kure that day to operate 300 nautical miles (560 km; 350 mi) south of Honshu on radar picket duty.
[4] She was among a number of Japanese submarines the U.S. Navy scuttled off the Goto Islands in Operation Road's End on 1 April 1946, sinking at 32°30′N 128°40′E / 32.500°N 128.667°E / 32.500; 128.667 (Ha-103).