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Ayaka’s Tearjerker Songs, Cry-Your-Eyes-Out Tracks, and Popular Hits Ranking [2026]
Ayaka’s songs deliver very honest and pure words carried on melodies.
Sometimes they even bring us to tears when we listen.
Here, we’ve put together a ranking introducing Ayaka’s popular tear-jerkers—songs that will make you cry your eyes out.
Ayaka’s Tearjerker Songs, Cry-Your-Eyes-Out Tracks, and Popular Hits Ranking [2026] (1–10)
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Even when we’re apart, our hearts are connected.
This is Ayaka’s ballad that paints such a bittersweet yet warm feeling.
Released in 2006 as her fourth single, it was featured in an au “LISMO” commercial and used as the theme song for NHK General TV’s “Mirai Kansoku Tsunagaru TV @Human.” While carrying the loneliness of a long-distance relationship where you can’t meet, the song portrays thinking of each other by looking up at the same sky.
That pure bond is sung with tender care.
On a long autumn night, it’s a song that makes you want to gaze at the moon outside your window and think of someone dear.
It’s perfect for quietly remembering friends from your school days or a lover far away.
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This is a song by Ayaka that feels like carefully revisiting memories that resurface every time graduation season comes around.
The gentle, piano-centered sound seems to highlight the calm atmosphere of a graduation ceremony.
It conveys the bittersweet loneliness felt at graduation, while at the same time drawing strength from recalling the people who supported you.
It’s a piece that also expresses unchanging feelings over time and a wish for former friends to be living well.
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“Home,” sung by Ayaka, who is popular across a wide range of generations, is included on the album “Funtale,” released in June 2023.
Do you have someone who’s always in your heart even if they’re not by your side right now—someone whose very existence gives you strength? This song conveys feelings for that person you can’t see right away but always think about, and a wish for their happiness and for them to spend each day in good health.
Rather than being filled with sadness or heartbreak, it’s a heartwarming, tear-jerking number that overflows with gentle, calm emotions.
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As she herself says, this song really conveys a feeling of closeness.
It was written as the theme song for the NHK morning drama Hanako and Anne, so it felt familiar and went on to become a hit.
That spirit of staying close is an important keyword for marriage and for the future.
It’s a song that overflows with tears that accompany countless smiles.
Under the same skyayaka5rank/position
Ayaka’s “Minna Sora no Shita” (“Everyone Under the Sky”) is a song released in 2009, just before she paused her activities for medical treatment.
It became a famous tune through its tie-in as the theme for a Kao shampoo commercial, and as an encouraging song that strongly supports a friend, it’s the kind of piece that can move you to tears.
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This song, included on her album released in 2018, was created as the theme song for the film “The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps,” based on a novel by Keigo Higashino.
The movie portrays a daughter who has fallen into a brain-dead state, and because this theme song was composed specifically with that story in mind, listening to it while recalling the plot is enough to bring you to tears—a truly moving piece.
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This is the song used in the ending when Mitsuru Adachi’s manga Cross Game, by the creator famous for the anime Touch, was adapted into an anime.
This track, which highlights the poignancy of scenes depicting happier times, gives me goosebumps with its lyrics and melody.