Hanami Saito

Hanami Saito (, born 5 June 2004) is a field hockey player from Japan.

Personal life Hanami Saito was born on 5 June 2004, in the Yamagata Prefecture.

She is a former student of Yonezawa Commercial High School.

Career Domestic league In the Japanese national league, Matsunami represents the Crowning Glories.

Under–21 Saito made her junior international debut in 2023. She made her first appearances for the Japanese U–21 team during a test series against Australia in the Gold Coast. She went on to represent Japan again at the Junior Asian Cup in Kakamigahara, winning a bronze medal. To close out 2023, Saito represented Japan again at the FIH Junior World Cup in Santiago, concluding the tournament with a seventh-place finish.

In 2024 she was a member of the junior squad at the Junior Asian Cup in Muscat. At the tournament she scored her first international goal for Japan, helping the team to a bronze medal.

She was named in the squad for the 2024–25 FIH Nations Cup in Santiago.