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[Spring Love Songs] Recommended Classics and Popular Love Songs to Listen to During Cherry Blossom Season

Spring is a season of meetings and farewells.

Some loves begin, while others quietly come to an end.

In this article, we introduce recommended springtime love songs that capture all kinds of romances.

This time, we’ve picked a wide range—from timeless spring classics to the latest hits.

Whether you want to revisit a beloved masterpiece or discover a tear-jerking spring ballad, this playlist is perfect for you.

They’re also great for karaoke, so why not enjoy them with new friends you meet this spring?

[Spring Love Songs] Recommended Masterpieces and Popular Love Songs to Listen to During Cherry Blossom Season (141–150)

KoishunkaHayama Mizuki

Mizuki Hayama “Koiharuhi” MUSIC VIDEO
KoishunkaHayama Mizuki

It’s a song that beautifully weaves together the mood of spring and the stirrings of love.

The lyrics impressively depict scenes wrapped in the scent of plum blossoms and the chirping of small birds amid the spring haze.

While accepting the passage of time and the changing seasons, it quietly looks back on a love that has passed, touching the heart.

Released in January 2024, this is a track by Mizuki Hayama.

It’s recommended not only for enka fans, but also for anyone who feels a touch of loneliness with the arrival of spring.

It’s the kind of song you’ll want to stop and listen to just as the cherry blossoms begin to bloom.

Sakura FuwariMatsu Takako

“Sakura Fuwari” is Takako Matsu’s fifth single, released in 1998.

The song was also used in a commercial for Takano Yuri Beauty Clinic, and it’s crafted to evoke an image of radiant beauty.

Incidentally, the lyrics—poetically expressing the gentle feelings of spring—were written by Matsu herself.

Her clear voice, which seems to cherish every single word as she sings, has a way of quietly sinking into your heart.

Yearning for springBotanikaru na kurashi.

The Tokyo-based six-piece pop band Botanical na Kurashi released their seventh digital single, “Haru ni Akogaru,” in April 2023.

It’s a warm, city pop-tinged pop tune where electric piano and saxophone resonate mellowly.

The pleasantly laid-back groove feels great.

True to the band’s motto—“A new paradise discovered by misfits in the Reiwa era”—it’s a track that gently unravels the heart.

[Spring Love Songs] Recommended Masterpieces & Popular Love Songs to Listen to During Cherry Blossom Season (151–160)

Sakura SongKANA-BOON

KANA-BOON “Sakura no Uta” Music Video
Sakura SongKANA-BOON

A musician-like number with a story about putting feelings for a loved one into a song.

KANA-BOON’s “Sakura no Uta” is included on the 2013 mini-album “Boku ga CD wo Dashitara.” It portrays a younger self who couldn’t come up with clever words for the person they liked, struggled to put their feelings into music, and was still quite immature.

Even so, wanting to convey and deliver those feelings, they sing, laying their straightforward emotions over the melody they’d imagined.

Before you drift apart at graduation, why not, like this song, try expressing your feelings to someone important to you?

Let’s fall in love.NICO Touches the Walls

As the title suggests, it’s a love song about pure romance.

The lyrics feel pure and a bit monotonous, but the jazzy chords blend in nicely and give it a stylish touch.

It’s wonderful when you can honestly tell someone you like that you love them, just like in this song.

Taiwan cherryren

Ren – Taiwan Cherry (Music Video)
Taiwan cherryren

Ren’s 2023 number “Hikan-zakura” is a song about someone you can never forget.

The more important a person is, the harder it is to let them go, no matter what you do.

Memories resurface, bringing pain and sorrow…

Even so, as time refuses to stop, the song portrays the resolve to finally face forward and shift one’s heart.

It leaves you with the hope that, ahead on that path, spring will arrive with beautiful cherry blossoms in bloom.

Somei Yoshino (Yoshino cherry)ENDLICHERI☆ENDLICHERI

This is the first single released under one of Tsuyoshi Domoto’s solo monikers, ENDLICHERI☆ENDLICHERI; Domoto is also active as a member of KinKi Kids.

Titled after Somei Yoshino, a cherry blossom variety commonly seen in Japan, the song depicts the many emotions felt during cherry blossom season.

Its airy, floating sound—evoking an unsteady mind and shifting feelings—together with vocals that accentuate that mood, creates a unique world.

The track conjures the sense of unease behind the beauty of cherry blossoms, which can be seen only for a limited time each year: how many more times will we get to witness this scene?