The Ooguri-Vafa hyperkähler metric is expected to be part of the local model of the L 2 -hyperkähler metric of the Hitchin moduli spaces, near the generic part of the discriminant locus (see [Nei13]). In this paper, we show that the Ooguri-Vafa space can be interpreted as a certain set of rank 2, framed wild harmonic bundles over CP 1 , with one irregular singularity. Along the way, we also find that the electric and magnetic twistor coordinates from [GMN10], which describe the hyperkähler geometry of the Ooguri-Vafa space, have an interpretation in terms of Stokes data associated to our framed wild harmonic bundles.