in june 2015 he went on to red bull salzburg in the austrian bundesliga he was then loaned to liefering. he debuted for liefering in a league match versus kapfenberger sv. he made 64 matches for liefering. then he was loaned to sv mattersburg. 2018 he came back to salzburg and was loaned to holstein kiel till the end of 2018–19 season. 2019 he came back to salzburg and became part of the first squad. in july 2019 he debuted versus sc-esv parndorf 1919 in a cup match. his first goal was in a league match versus sk rapid wien also in july 2019. on 3 november 2020, okugawa scored his first uefa champions league goal in a 6–2 defeat against bayern munich in the 2020–21 season. he played 30 matches for salzburg and scored 9 goals.