Began dancing at Classical Ballet Academy S.O.U. in Japan, Chihiro won the Idemitsu Kousan Scholarship at the 8 th Asian Pacific International Ballet Competition in Tokyo in 2001 and was accepted into The Australian Ballet School. Upon graduation, she joined SDT in July 2005 and had performed in many SDT productions including Boi Sakti's Reminiscing the Moon, La Sylpide, Coppelia, Legacy of Goh Choo San , Swan Lake and Giselle In The Park. She has also taken on principal roles in Jeffrey Tan's The Nutcracker and Sometimes I think I Remember, Graham Lustig's Cinderella, Kuik Swee Boon's Pellucid, Jorma Elo's Glow-Stop, David Dawson's A Million Kisses to My Skin, Goh Choo San's Unknown Territory, George Balanchine's Concerto Barocco as the “Second Violin” , Edmund Stripe's Piano Concerto No.2, Opus 102 and Goh Choo San's Double Contrast. Chihiro had also taken on the principal role as Odette/Odile in SDT's production of Swan Lake in 2009.