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

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You know. / Are-kun & “Yuika” [MV]

This song is a collaboration between singer-songwriter Are-kun, who’s especially popular among younger generations and active mainly on social media, and Yuika.

Rather than a back-and-forth between a man and a woman, it paints an inner emotional landscape, tracing the path from a frustrating, almost-missed-connection kind of romance—where they’re actually into each other yet somehow out of sync—to finally becoming mutual.

As a viewer, you can’t help wanting to say, “Just confess already!” But that fluttery, awkward feeling of thinking it might be one-sided—that nervous limbo—is also one of the charms of love, isn’t it?

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Late-blooming cherry blossomsAKB48

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This is a spring number imbued with a bittersweetness that tightens your chest in the season of partings.

It’s a song released in 2026 by the nationally beloved idol group AKB48, with 19th-generation member Momoka Ito serving as center.

The lyrics, depicting the pangs of fleeting youth and a love that scatters as delicately as cherry blossoms, are truly stirring.

With its refreshing melody that resonates in the heart, this piece is perfect to listen to as graduation approaches, when you want to look back on memories with someone you love.

Surely every memory will remain gently in your heart.

Spring Dayaimyon

Aimyon – Harunohi [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]

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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1.15 Million Kilometers of FilmOfisharu Higedan Dism

Official HIGE DANDism – 1,150,000 Kilometers of Film [Official Live Video]

This song, 115 Million Kilometer Film, included on Official HIGE DANDism’s first album, has also been featured in commercials, so many of you may have heard it.

It’s a heart-fluttering love song that likens a romance—and the future that follows—to a movie, to film.

Its light, bright melody is sure to lift your spirits in the spring.

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Spitz / Cherry

If you want a cheerful, spring-like song, I recommend Spitz’s “Cherry.” Released in 1996 as their 13th single, it sold over 1.6 million copies, becoming a million-seller and reaching No.

1 on the Oricon Singles Chart.

With its bright tone that starts with rhythmic guitar cutting and lyrics about trying to move on from a breakup, it’s a song that can lift your spirits.

Spring is also a season of new encounters.

If you’re feeling down from heartbreak, listen to “Cherry” and keep moving forward toward new beginnings!

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When cherry-blossom hues danceNakajima Mika

Mika Nakashima – When Cherry Blossoms Dance in Pink [Japanese-Chinese Lyrics]

Mika Nakashima’s “Sakurairo Maukoro” begins with an arresting intro where delicate piano tones intertwine with a clear, pure singing voice.

It’s a song that tightens the heart with its contrast between an undying love that remains through the changing seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, and the reality of being alone now.

The lyrics beautifully depicting the passage of the seasons have won wide acclaim, with comments like “There’s no other song that sings so beautifully of the seasons and the course of love,” and “It feels purifying to the soul.” Perhaps there’s no need to force yourself to forget a sorrowful feeling; as the seasons cycle again and again, it may be sublimated into a beautiful memory.

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Sakura Lovemosao.

Sakuran / Mosawo [Music Video]

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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