Completed and commissioned in July 1945, she served during the final weeks of World War II.

At the end of 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy decided it needed large numbers of high-speed coastal submarines to defend the Japanese Home Islands[1] against an anticipated Allied invasion (named Operation Downfall by the Allies).

[1] For surface running, the submarines were powered by a single 400-brake-horsepower (298 kW) diesel engine that drove one propeller shaft.

[2] On 2 November 1945, she was reassigned to Japanese Submarine Division Three under United States Navy command along with her sister ships Ha-201, Ha-202, Ha-203, and Ha-210.

[2] She was among a number of Japanese submarines the Royal Australian Navy destroyer HMAS Quiberon and Royal Indian Navy sloop HMIS Sutlej scuttled with gunfire in the Iyo Nada in the Seto Inland Sea in Operation Bottom on 9 May 1946.