Hiroko Taniyama Popular Song Rankings [2026]

Song of the TengusaTaniyama Hiroko8rank/position

JR Iwashiro Station — Song of Tengusa

Wakayama’s Minabe Town is a place I visited on a school trip back when I was in high school.

It’s a very peaceful and lovely town.

The nature is abundant, but the fact that there’s hardly anyone around gives it a laid-back feel—and the song about it is so charmingly relaxed that I remember laughing when I first heard it.

It celebrates the good things about the countryside.

The cat goes.Taniyama Hiroko9rank/position

Hiroko Taniyama – The Cat Goes

This song is included on Hiroko Taniyama’s sixth album, released on November 21, 1980.

It depicts scenes of observing a cat out for a stroll.

Cheerful on the surface, it also conveys a sense of the sorrows and melancholy of human society.

It’s a mid-tempo pop song.

The Feelings of a TailTaniyama Hiroko10rank/position

Hiroko Taniyama - The Feelings of a Tail

This is a song that was broadcast on Minna no Uta in 1988.

Written by Hiroko Taniyama, also known for songs like “Ohayō Crayon” and “Song of the Dark Forest,” it charmingly depicts the budding feelings of a girl cat in love, and the cat character that appears in the music video is brimming with cuteness as well.

CatdayTaniyama Hiroko11rank/position

Hiroko Taniyama - Cat Day

It’s neither Sunday nor a holiday today, but let’s take the day off.

We’re always living like we’re in a rush, so everyone knows how hard you’re trying.

So go ahead and call the company and say you’re staying home with a cold.

That’s the idea.

In the story, the husband sings about making it a day where he does nothing—a moving, tear-jerking moment.

The Girl of the Heptagonal PyramidTaniyama Hiroko12rank/position

The Girl of the Heptagonal Pyramid by Hiroko Taniyama

Thinking of you, whom I will never see again, you are in a seven-sided pyramidal tower, and you will never show yourself.

No matter how far I walk, I cannot get closer to you; such a seven-sided pyramidal tower does not exist in this world.

It cannot be built.

And yet the man cries out to the girl that he loves her.

Dream SoupTaniyama Hiroko13rank/position

Dream Soup

Her real name is Hiroko Nakanishi, born on August 29, 1956.

She graduated from Ochanomizu University Senior High School.

Her current record label is Yamaha Music Communications.

The song unfolds like progressive rock, giving you the feeling of wandering through a dream.

Come to the forestTaniyama Hiroko14rank/position

Hiroko Taniyama - Come to the Forest

I live in the forest—“I”—and you, “you,” used to come there every morning.

But from one morning on, “you” stopped coming and started going to see “him” in the city.

This is a song about my feelings, but when it was released, there were a series of abductions of young girls, and because the lyrics evoked that, they were rewritten.