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

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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 classics and popular love songs to listen to during cherry blossom season (21–30)

cherry blossomMoriyama Naotaro

Naotaro Moriyama – Sakura (Solo)

cherry blossomMoriyama Naotaro

A classic sakura-themed song and also known as a graduation song, “Sakura.” Released in 2003, it is said that Naotaro Moriyama wrote this song when a friend of his was getting married.

You can feel his wish to celebrate his friend’s new beginning through the lyrics.

While it may strongly come across as a friendship song, listening to it at graduation can also make it sound like a longing to see again the person you couldn’t confess your feelings to.

Whether as a love song or a friendship song, try listening to it while layering it with the feelings that fit your own heart.

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Nameless PoemMr.Children

Mr.Children “Nameless Poem” Mr.Children “HOME” TOUR 2007 ~in the field~

Nameless PoemMr.Children

This is a masterpiece—their 10th single—that achieved double million sales.

It’s a song about the shape of love that makes you think deeply about what love really is.

At first, it may sound like a straightforward love song, but the more you listen, the more the difficulty of love—and feelings of sadness and poignancy—grow stronger.

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[Spring Love Songs] Recommended timeless tracks and popular love songs to listen to during cherry blossom season (31–40)

10-year cherry blossomsAKB48

[MV full] 10nen Zakura / AKB48 [Official]

10-year cherry blossomsAKB48

A heartwarming AKB48 song that accompanies the season of graduations and farewells.

Its lyrics, depicting friends vowing to reunite in ten years, beautifully capture the universal loneliness of parting and the hope for the future.

Released in March 2009, the track became the group’s first to reach the Oricon Top 3.

It’s a gentle push for those taking a new step with the arrival of spring, and is also recommended as background music for send-offs and graduation ceremonies.

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Sakura Lovemosao.

Sakuran / Mosawo [Music Video]

Sakura Lovemosao.

When you think of spring, you think of cherry blossoms—their splendor is captivating, yet they somehow carry a sense of transience and melancholy.

A love song that resonates with those feelings is Mosawo’s “Sakura Koi.” While many of Mosawo’s songs portray bittersweet emotions from a woman’s perspective, this track is overflowing with aching tenderness, a number that sings of unrequited love.

It tells of a romance that didn’t work out, a love that has to be given up, and the inability to fully let go comes through painfully clearly.

It’s a love song that also overlaps with the feelings of farewells during graduation season.

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Spring Dayaimyon

Aimyon – Harunohi [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]

Spring Dayaimyon

It’s a song written by singer-songwriter Aimyon as the theme for the film “Crayon Shin-chan: Honeymoon Hurricane ~The Lost Hiroshi~.” This is such a lovely love song that conveys the gentle, tender feelings of two people who have become husband and wife.

Just listening to it makes you feel happy.

If you listen to it with someone you love—like your spouse or partner—while viewing beautiful cherry blossoms, it seems like it would deepen your bond even more.

It’s perfect for happy times, of course, but I also recommend it when you’re feeling anxious.

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The Honey Moon – for the film –SEKAI NO OWARI

Mitsunotsuki -For The Film-

The Honey Moon - for the film -SEKAI NO OWARI

A song chosen as the theme for the film Let Me Eat Your Pancreas, starring Takumi Kitamura—member of the dance-rock band DISH//, known for their hit Neko—and actress Mei Nagano.

This track is an arrangement of SEKAI NO OWARI’s Mitsu no Tsuki from their album Lip, tailored for the movie.

It’s a gentle, warm song that makes you want to listen while recalling the many scenes you shared with someone dear who is no longer here.

Considering the film’s content, it can also be heard as a message like, “I won’t change.”

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CHE.R.RYYUI

YUI　『CHE.R.RY-short ver.-』

CHE.R.RYYUI

YUI’s eighth single, released in 2007.

The tagline is “A spring song like a sweet-and-sour fruit.” If you’re a woman, you’ve probably heard it at least once, haven’t you? It portrays the feelings of a woman entrusting her thoughts for someone of the opposite sex to an email, and the melody is very cute.

It’s perfect for spring, isn’t it?

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