 Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Musi wa 29 December, akaenda parwendo rwake rwokutanga rwehondo, achienda kuMariana Islands. Yakasvika pamhenderekedzo yeGuam pa 03:00 musi wa 11 Ndira 1945 uye Hashimoto akaraira kaitens ina dzakatangwa. VaKaiten vakambotaura kuti ngarava ine mafuta yakanyura, kunyange zvazvo yakanga isingakwanisi kuongorora kana ngarava yacho yakanga yarohwa chaizvoizvo. Kurwisa kwacho kwakanga kwakundikana. Akabva akurumidza kudzokera kuKure ndokusvika ikoko musi wa20 January. Akagara pachiteshi kusvikira muna March, zvichida nemhaka yokushomeka kwezvokudya. Pana 1 March, akarayirwa kuenda kuIwo Jima kunotsigira hondo yaiitika ikoko. Ari ikoko, I-58 yakarayirwa kuti itange kaitens dzayo dzose pasina vatyairi vayo ndokudzokera kumusha nokukurumidza. Akarayirwazve musi wa 2 April kuti aende kunotsigira mauto eJapan muhondo yeOkinawa. Ari ikoko, akarwiswa nendege ka50. Haana kutongobuda kweanopfuura maawa mashomanene. Yakasvika kuKure musi wa29 Kubvumbi 1945, iyo chete yeJapan yepasi pemvura kuti ibve mubasa racho. Akaramba ari pachiteshi nokuda kwemigodhi yakaramba ichiitwa neU.S. Army Air Forces, uye yakabva musi wa 16 July pane imwe hondo yehondo. Panguva iyoyo, yaiva imwe yengarava huru dzepasi pemvura ina chete dzakanga dzasara muJapan Navy, uye basa rayo raiva rokutambudza nzira dzokukurukurirana dzeAllied. 