[1] She first became interested in shogi when she was a fourth-grade elementary school student after seeing some classmates playing the game.

She decided that she wanted to learn how to play the game and started attending a local shogi school shortly thereafter.

[5] Ishimoto was accepted into the Japan Shogi Association (JSA) Kansai Branch's training group system.

[2][6][7][8][9] In 2016, she was promoted to Class B1 of the training group system when she was a 17-year-old third year senior high school student, thus meeting the criteria for the rank of provisional women's professional 3-kyū.

Ishimoto has yet to appear in a major title match, but she has won one official non-title women's professional shogi tournament.