After attending Shizuoka Prefectural Shimizu Higashi High School and Tsukuba University, he played for Nissan Motor and Shimizu. After serving as a coach at Tokoha Gakuen Hamamatsu University and Shimizu, he became the first Japanese coach in the J-League to win the domestic triple crown at G Osaka. Since 2018, he has been demonstrating his skills at FC Tokyo.