Masterpieces of bittersweet breakup songs. Recommended popular tracks.
It seems that when you’re feeling down, listening to somber songs rather than forcing yourself to listen to upbeat ones is actually better for your heart.
This time, we’ve put together a collection of Japanese breakup songs to send to you, who are hurting from heartbreak.
Let yourself fully relate to the songs you connect with, and clear your mind.
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Classic heart-wrenching breakup songs. Recommended popular tracks (181–190)
Rouge of Fragmentsbokula.
A bittersweet story delivered by the rock band bokula.
Released digitally in December 2024, this work portrays lingering attachment after a breakup.
Set to a mid-tempo rock tune, it captures the complex feelings toward a former lover.
The swirling mix of gratitude—“Thank you for teaching me how to love”—and the thought, “If we had never met, I wouldn’t be hurting like this,” is deeply relatable.
It’s sure to offer comfort to anyone carrying the pain of a broken heart.
Day of Tearslecca
Having your heart broken is incredibly, incredibly painful.
But even so, morning still comes, and you still have to go to work.
No matter how hard it is, you can’t cry forever, right? Here are some recommended breakup songs that give you courage and help you stay positive.
That’s not fair…arekunn
This is a poignant love song about someone who never confessed their feelings and ended up heartbroken.
Arekun’s gentle voice and the melody that sinks into the heart further elevate the song’s bittersweet emotion.
It became available for streaming in August 2021 and was included on the album “Kokyū” released in September of the same year.
It was also chosen as the ending theme for TV Asahi’s music program “BREAKOUT,” drawing considerable attention.
Packed with lyrics that resonate with anyone who has felt the pain of unrequited love, this track is recommended for times when you want to heal the sting of heartbreak or sort out your feelings.
youKōda Kumi
The winter cold and the frozen heart whose time stopped after breaking up with him are linked, aren’t they? From the lyrics, you can feel the regret of wishing they had talked more and met each other halfway.
There’s lingering attachment, and it’s precisely because it hurts that it feels so heartrending.
It’s a song I can really relate to.
Love DrizzleShonan no Kaze
I still have quite a bit of lingering attachment, but for some reason this song sounds cool.
The way it honestly portrays things that used to be normal no longer being so, and the helpless loneliness of being alone, really sinks straight into your heart.
I also recommend it as a karaoke song for men.
No matter how…Nishino Kana
Kana Nishino always honestly speaks for a woman’s heart.
This song, too, portrays a girl’s feelings of love as she thinks intensely about the person she broke up with.
Yet no matter how deeply she keeps thinking of them, there’s an indescribable sorrow in the fact that her voice can’t reach them.
I think there are many girls who can strongly relate to this.
Just… I want to see youEXILE
From the title and the very first lines of the lyrics, you can strongly feel the regret of something that’s ended and can’t be undone.
It’s striking how the song expresses the wish to go back and do things differently—“If I could return to that time, this is what I’d do.” Throughout the entire track, it sings of regret and pain, and the intensity of those feelings comes through.
When you look back on the time you spent together, it’s often only the good memories that resurface, which can make the regret grow even stronger.
