Model and actress Maryjun Takahashi has built a long career in fashion, film and television. In recent years, she has also shared a lifestyle centered on yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, organic living, farming and time in nature.
Born on November 8, 1987, in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, Takahashi first became widely known as an exclusive model for CanCam before expanding her career into acting.
She made a particularly strong impression as Akane Saihara in the Ushijima the Loan Shark film series. Her other credits include Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno and The Legend Ends, Stolen Identity, and television dramas including Kounodori, Tokyo Dokushin Danshi, My Dear Exes and My Family.
Her acting career continued actively in 2026, while her interests in yoga and meditation also developed into work she could share with others.
Her official profile lists travel, farming, martial arts, marine sports, aromatherapy, health, organic living and Ayurveda among her interests. She has also earned Level 1 certifications in both aromatherapy and Japanese cosmetics knowledge.
At 38 in 2026, Takahashi’s lifestyle includes skincare, nutrition, serious strength training, Pilates, yoga, meditation and journaling. Behind these habits is the story of a woman who grew up as the eldest of four siblings and spent many years helping support her family.
Her routines have included a simple oil-serum and facial-steamer skincare regimen, sheet masks before shoots, UV care, deadlifts in the 70–80 kg range, protein, flaxseed oil, Pilates, teaching yoga, early-morning meditation, Ayurveda experiences in Sri Lanka and even a visit to a New Zealand winery.
Although these habits span many different areas, they are connected by one consistent theme: learning what feels appropriate for her at each stage of life and bringing it naturally into her everyday routine.
Here, we take a detailed look at Maryjun Takahashi’s beauty and wellness habits, including skincare, fitness, diet, sleep, meditation, travel, family, marriage views and the lifestyle she values at 38.
Maryjun Takahashi’s Beauty Routine: Oil Serum, Sheet Masks, UV Care and Organic Skincare
Takahashi is someone who likes to learn about beauty through both study and personal experience.
Her Level 1 Japanese Cosmetics Certification reflects the fact that beauty has become an area of knowledge as well as a part of her professional life.
Oil Serum, Facial Steaming and Sheet Masks in Everyday Life
In a 2021 post on her official blog, Takahashi described a period when she kept her home skincare routine very simple and centered it around an oil serum.
After bathing, she would apply the oil serum and then use a facial steamer while watching a movie or YouTube videos featuring her sisters.
She wrote that a routine needed to feel easy enough to keep doing, and her approach blended beauty care naturally into time she was already enjoying at home.
On mornings when she had a shoot, she sometimes used a sheet mask while sitting in front of the steamer.
Her routine changed with the demands of the day: simple on ordinary days and a little more focused before work.
💡 Her beauty rule: keep it easy enough to continue
Rather than separating beauty from the rest of her evening, Takahashi paired an oil serum and facial steamer with movies and other relaxing time at home.
Her 30s Brought a Growing Interest in Organic Beauty and Body Care
As she moved through her 30s, Takahashi became increasingly interested in organic products and in the materials that come into direct contact with her skin.
In 2024, she introduced items including organic-style facial lotion, a manuka-and-vanilla body scrub and organic-cotton towels.
Her interest extended beyond facial skincare to body care, textiles and everyday items that touch the skin.
💡 Manuka and vanilla in her body-care routine
One of the body scrubs Takahashi introduced contained manuka and vanilla, showing how her beauty interests expanded from facial care to full-body routines.
A Skincare Campaign with Her Brother and Makeup-Free Days at Home
In 2025, Takahashi appeared in a skincare campaign together with her younger brother, professional footballer Yuji Takahashi.
She said she had been using the brand’s UV cream from the development stage, choosing a colorless version for private days and a beige version when appearing in public.
In an earlier interview, she also said that she often spent her days off without makeup and paid attention to the appearance and condition of her pores.
She has also used professional dermatological skincare when appropriate, combining home routines with expert care.
When it comes to makeup, she enjoys affordable cosmetics as well as richer colors and textures, including red, gold, luminous eye makeup and statement lip looks.
💡 A skincare campaign with her footballer brother
The actress and model appeared in the same beauty campaign as her professional-footballer brother, offering a rare glimpse of the close bond within the Takahashi family.
Strength Training, Pilates and Yoga: From 80 kg Deadlifts to Teaching Yoga
Movement has long been one of the most important parts of Takahashi’s beauty and wellness lifestyle.
With interests that include martial arts and kickboxing, she spent years doing serious strength training, especially during her 20s and early 30s.
Deadlifting Up to 80 kg — with Protein After Training
In 2018, Takahashi wrote on her official blog that she completed three full sets of deadlifts at 70 kg.
In 2017, she had also challenged herself with an 80 kg deadlift, a weight she had set as a personal goal.
Her workouts included bench presses, TRX and HIIT, and she particularly enjoyed exercises that focused on the glutes.
Protein was also part of her post-workout routine during this period.
In 2019, she shared a day off that began with morning strength training and protein, followed by a hair appointment and stretching.
💡 A day off could mean “training → protein → hair salon → stretching”
Fitness and beauty were not separate projects for Takahashi. They naturally shared space in the same day.
From Pilates to Her Yoga Teaching Debut in 2025
By 2023, Takahashi had incorporated weekly Pilates and other forms of movement focused on body awareness and alignment.
Then, in June 2025, she taught her first yoga class.
She had completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training program and later continued her studies at the 300-hour level.
For her own class, she planned the breathing exercises, physical sequence, music and final savasana.
Her movement practice had evolved from challenging the body with heavy strength training to exploring posture, breath and mental awareness as well.
💡 From strength-training enthusiast to yoga teacher
Takahashi has said that she once never imagined herself guiding yoga in front of other people. It became a new chapter after years of learning about her own body.
At 38: Meditation Coaching and a 5 a.m. Yoga Routine
By 2026, Takahashi had also earned certification as a coach through the Japan Meditation Association.
She also joined a wellness retreat in Karuizawa as a special instructor, where she led forest yoga and guided meditation.
Her current morning routine is surprisingly specific.
She wakes at around 5 a.m., drinks warm water and gives herself an oil massage.
After that, she spends around 30 minutes to an hour practicing meditation and yoga on a mat in a room where the morning sunlight comes in.
With houseplants around the space, it has become a place where she can begin the day by paying attention to her body and state of mind.
💡 5 a.m. → warm water → oil massage → yoga and meditation
The woman who once challenged herself with heavy deadlifts now begins many mornings quietly, with sunlight, breath and movement.
Diet, Protein and Omega-3: From Flaxseed Oil to Medicinal-Food Traditions and Organic Produce
Takahashi’s approach to food has also evolved with her activity level, interests and lifestyle.
From a Strength-Training Diet to Enjoying Different Oils and Omega-3 Foods
In a 2020 blog post, Takahashi reflected on a period of intense strength training when she ate more carbohydrates while keeping dietary fat relatively low.
As her training volume changed, she became interested in foods including coconut oil, olive oil, sesame oil, grass-fed butter and grass-fed beef.
Rather than keeping the same eating style indefinitely, she adjusted her food choices to suit the rhythm of her life at the time.
Her interest in omega-3 goes back even further. In 2012, she wrote about using flaxseed oil on salads in place of ordinary dressing.
💡 Flaxseed oil as salad dressing
Takahashi was already incorporating flaxseed oil into everyday meals as far back as 2012.
Green-Powder Drinks, Matcha and Coconut Butter
In an earlier interview, Takahashi also described a period when she drank a green-vegetable powder mixed with water in the morning.
She enjoyed matcha mixed with coconut butter, as well as frozen pineapple topped with coconut butter.
These kinds of foods became part of drinks and snacks rather than something separate from ordinary daily life.
💡 Coconut butter in matcha
Her food habits have included green powders, coconut-butter matcha and frozen pineapple with coconut butter — small details that make her daily routine especially distinctive.
Medicinal-Food Traditions, Seasonal Vegetables and Farming
By 2026, Takahashi was also talking about incorporating ideas from Japanese and East Asian medicinal-food traditions into her meals.
Her focus was on paying attention to seasonality and to what felt appropriate for her condition and daily rhythm.
She is also interested in seasonal and organic produce and sometimes buys vegetables directly from farmers.
She enjoys simple preparations such as vegetables with olive oil and salt.
Her interest became practical enough that she attended an agricultural school for working adults for a year.
On days off, she now sometimes spends time in the fields and enjoys working with soil.
💡 Farming became part of her days off
After spending a year learning at an agricultural school for adults, Takahashi began enjoying time in the fields as another part of her lifestyle.
The same philosophy appears across both beauty and food: build habits in a form that feels natural enough to continue.
Meditation, Sleep, Travel and New Zealand: Self-Care That Deepened in Her 30s
In recent years, Takahashi has placed increasing value on quiet time, emotional awareness and experiences that help her reconnect with herself.
One of the biggest turning points came around age 31.
Paying Off Her Family’s Debt at 31 Led to a New Question: “What Do I Want?”
For many years, Takahashi had one very clear goal: help repay her family’s debt.
Around age 31, that goal was finally achieved.
After reaching such a major milestone, she began asking herself what she personally wanted from life now that the role that had driven her for so long had changed.
Meditation and solo travel became part of that period of reflection.
By 2026, journaling was also part of her routine, helping her put thoughts and emotions into words.
She had previously kept a “dream notebook,” writing goals as though they had already come true. Over time, writing also became a way to observe what she was thinking and feeling in the present.
💡 From a dream notebook to journaling
Writing began as a way to describe future dreams and gradually expanded into a practice for understanding her present thoughts and emotions.
Affirmations in the Morning, Gratitude at Night — and Sometimes a Good Cry
In a morning meditation video she released in 2025, Takahashi included affirmations she personally uses at the start of the day.
At night, she sometimes reflects on something good that happened and says out loud that she feels happy, followed by the reason why.
She also enjoys organic-cotton pajamas, adding another small comfort to the end of the day.
When she wants to release emotion, she sometimes watches a moving film on the large projector in her home and allows herself to cry fully.
For Takahashi, words, films, yoga and meditation can all become ways of changing the atmosphere of a day.
💡 Affirmations in the morning, “today’s happiness” at night
Words are another part of her self-care. Takahashi gives attention to what she says to herself at both the beginning and end of the day.
Solo Travel, Nature and a New Zealand Winery
Around age 31, Takahashi also took her first solo trip to Spain.
She later traveled to destinations including Kenya, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Australia and Sri Lanka.
Nature is a recurring theme in her travels. She sometimes goes glamping alone, heads out to watch the sunrise when she has a free day, or spends time kayaking near the water.
Between acting projects, she values being outdoors as a way to reconnect with the person she is away from a role.
In one interview, Takahashi also revealed that she had visited a winery in New Zealand.
During a period when she became interested in wine, including natural wine, visiting wineries became one of the ways she enjoyed the culture and landscape of a destination.
Having grown up in Shiga surrounded by Lake Biwa, mountains and greenery, it is easy to see why travel and nature continue to hold such an important place in her life.
💡 She has visited a New Zealand winery
With interests in nature, travel and wine, Takahashi has also spent time at a winery in New Zealand, experiencing the landscape and local food culture firsthand.
A 2025 Ayurveda Experience in Sri Lanka
In 2025, Takahashi traveled to Sri Lanka and experienced Panchakarma, a traditional program associated with Ayurveda.
She shared aspects of the food, treatments and local lifestyle as part of the wider cultural experience.
For her, travel has increasingly become a way to encounter unfamiliar ways of living while also creating space for personal reflection.
The Eldest of Four Siblings: Her Mother, Sister, Brothers and Views on Marriage
Family is central to understanding Maryjun Takahashi’s outlook on both life and work.
Her father is Japanese and her mother is from the Philippines. Takahashi grew up in Shiga as the eldest of four siblings.
Her younger sister Yu Takahashi is a model and actress, her brother Yuji Takahashi is a professional footballer, and another younger brother, Genji, works as an artist.
Their mother, Pen, worked as a singer and dancer when she was younger. When her children began pursuing careers in entertainment, she also used her experience to help teach them singing and stage presence.
💡 Her mother was a singer and dancer
The creative careers of the Takahashi siblings were shaped in part by a mother who had her own background as a performer.
The Family Turning Point They Called the “Lake Biwa Meeting”
When Takahashi was around 12, her father’s business ran into serious financial difficulties and the family’s circumstances changed dramatically.
Her father explained the situation at Lake Biwa, a place the family often visited.
The siblings later began calling the event their “Lake Biwa meeting.”
As the family adjusted to a different financial situation, they moved into progressively smaller homes.
Takahashi later compared the process to a set of nesting dolls.
Her parents, however, turned the moves into something playful by covering the children’s eyes and presenting each new place like a surprise.
Even the memories of a difficult period contain a sense of humor and warmth.
💡 Her parents turned moving house into a surprise
Even as the family’s circumstances changed, her parents found ways to make each move feel exciting for their children.
Supporting Her Family — and Later Traveling Melbourne with Her Sister
As a young adult, Takahashi had a clear goal: help repay the family debt.
For a period of time, much of what she earned through modeling and acting went toward supporting her family.
She has described herself as having an eldest-daughter personality that becomes especially strong when circumstances are difficult.
She also lived with her younger sister Yu for around eight years after entering the entertainment industry.
Even after they began living separately, the sisters remained close.
In 2025, they took their first sisters’ trip in around seven years and traveled together to Australia, where they enjoyed visiting cafés in Melbourne.
Years earlier, soon after moving to Tokyo, the sisters once entered a café but realized they could not comfortably afford both cake and the required drink, so they left without ordering.
The contrast between that memory and their later café-hopping trip through Melbourne makes their shared history especially memorable.
💡 From leaving a café without ordering to café-hopping in Melbourne
One small story captures just how much life changed for the sisters between their early years in Tokyo and their travels together as adults.
Her 2026 View on Marriage: Hope for the Future and Appreciation for Life Now
Takahashi continued to speak openly about marriage in 2026.
She said she does have a desire to marry and has become increasingly interested after hearing positive experiences from married friends.
She has also spoken fondly about the idea of having a wedding.
At the same time, she values her current single life and the freedom it gives her to travel, study and take on new experiences.
Her outlook makes room for both possibilities: looking forward to marriage while fully enjoying the life she has now.
Her mother also said in a 2025 interview that she would be happy to one day attend Maryjun’s wedding.
Life at 38: Beauty, Wellness and the Idea of Self-Love
When Takahashi was younger, much of her energy went toward work, supporting her family and building a strong body for a demanding career.
That determination is still there at 38, but it now exists alongside more deliberate time for rest, reflection and self-care.
Her beauty routines are designed to fit naturally into daily life. Her food habits shift with her lifestyle. Her movement practice has expanded from strength training into Pilates and yoga, followed by meditation, journaling, travel and farming.
Each one gives her another way to understand how she is feeling in the present.
Looking Good for Herself — and Returning to Her Own Center
From around 2024, one idea became increasingly important in Takahashi’s discussions about beauty and lifestyle: self-love.
Feeling comfortable in herself has become one of the standards she uses when choosing how to live and care for herself.
Beauty, yoga, meditation, food, travel, farming and family time gradually connect through that idea.
As an actress, Takahashi can immerse herself deeply in a role. She has reflected on past experiences when the emotions of a character stayed with her even after work.
Today, she deliberately creates time between projects to return to nature, practice yoga and meditation, travel and reconnect with her everyday self.
Entering a role fully and then returning to her own daily rhythm has become part of how she takes care of herself as a performer.
Flowers for the “Birthday” of Her Home — Strength and Gentleness Together
Takahashi also has a strong sense of affection for the home she lives in.
Her home includes a large table made from ancient Yakusugi cedar, and her sister Yu has a similar table in her own home.
Every year on the anniversary of moving into her current home, Takahashi buys flowers for the house as a way of saying thank you for protecting her.
💡 She gives flowers to her home on its “birthday”
Her sense of gratitude extends even to the place she lives. It is a small ritual that reflects the way she thinks about self-care and daily life.
There was strength in challenging 70–80 kg deadlifts.
There was responsibility in working for years to help support her family.
Today, that same life also includes waking at 5 a.m. for yoga, sitting quietly in meditation, writing in a journal, putting her hands in the soil, traveling, watching a film that makes her cry and buying flowers for her home.
Strength and gentleness now exist side by side in the way she approaches beauty and wellness.
In 2026, Maryjun Takahashi continues to work as an actress while deepening her interests in yoga, meditation, journaling, travel, farming and organic living.
What stands out most in her beauty and wellness routine is its flexibility. Her habits continue to evolve as her life changes.
Oil serum, sheet masks, UV care, serious strength training, protein, omega-3 foods, medicinal-food traditions, Pilates, yoga, meditation, journaling, travel, nature and family all appear at different points in that story.
After spending her younger years working toward the major goal of supporting her family, Takahashi now gives the same kind of attention to her own inner life and everyday environment. That evolution is one of the clearest themes running through her beauty, wellness and lifestyle at 38.
References
- ASIA PROMOTION — Maryjun Takahashi official profile and appearance information
- Maryjun Takahashi Official Blog — skincare routine, oil serum and facial steaming, 2021
- Maryjun Takahashi Official Blog — skincare campaign with her brother, 2025
- Biteki / Be-Story — self-love, organic beauty, sleep and emotional self-care, 2024
- Maryjun Takahashi Official Blog — strength training and deadlifts
- Maryjun Takahashi Official Blog — training, protein and stretching
- Maryjun Takahashi Official Blog — diet and food choices, 2020
- Maryjun Takahashi Official Blog — flaxseed oil and omega-3 habits
- Yoga Journal Japan — beauty, food and morning habits
- L-note — 5 a.m. yoga and meditation, family, solo travel and home life, 2026
- Tabiiro — nature, glamping, travel and her visit to a New Zealand winery
- Mynavi News — journaling, farming and meditation certification, 2026
- GINGER — Maryjun and Yu Takahashi on their close sister relationship, 2021
- Nikkan Sports — Maryjun Takahashi on marriage, 2026
- Bezzy — Maryjun Takahashi on marriage, single life and her current outlook, 2026
