Love songs you want to listen to in summer. Love songs that color the summer.

fireworksaiko

Fireworks – aiko (Full)

This is a masterpiece whose sweet melody—like a slice of the summer night sky—and poignant lyrics about an unattainable love resonate deeply.

Released by aiko in August 1999, the song vividly portrays the fleeting yet beautiful scenes of love, like fireworks rising into the night.

Included on the album “Sakura no Ki no Shita,” it gently envelops those quiet moments before sleep or the times you gaze up at the night sky thinking of someone dear, with its delicate vocals.

It remains a song many wish to listen to alone on a quiet night, and one that continues to comfort those carrying the ache of a tender, unfulfilled love.

A life-sized love songAqua Timez

Aqua Timez “Life-Size Love Song” Music Video

This is a number whose unadorned, straightforward expression of love shines like the summer sun and resonates in the heart.

Many listeners were surely moved by the lyrics, which set down in plain words a pure feeling of “I like you” so strong that saying it tens of thousands of times wouldn’t be enough.

The track appears on Aqua Timez’s mini-album Prayers Played Across the Sky, released independently in August 2005.

Despite being an indie release, the album became a huge hit, surpassing 800,000 copies in total sales, and it gained attention on cable radio and elsewhere after being used in a public service announcement.

The song sings directly about the exhilaration of the moment love comes to fruition and the simple happiness of just being together.

Listen to it with someone you like under the summer blue sky, and it’s sure to make your time together even more dramatic.

It’s a perfect song for couples who want to savor the joy of mutual love.

Love ParadeORANGE RANGE

ORANGE RANGE “Love Parade” Music Video

ORANGE RANGE is a five-member rock band that has produced numerous hit numbers, featuring a style where rap and singing intersect.

Released in May 2005, this song was used as the theme for the film “Train Man” and topped the Oricon charts for two consecutive weeks.

The lyrics, which depict a slice of everyday life—someone you like coming over to your place—and the explosive joy and confusion at the moment love comes to fruition, are enough to make your heart burn just by listening.

With a gentle yet powerful ballad-like melody, it’s a classic also included on the album “ИATURAL.” It’s the perfect track to supercharge the romantic mood when you listen on a summer night with someone special.

Immoral SummerNogizaka 46

Nogizaka46 “Immoral Summer” Music Video

This is a Nogizaka46 track whose passionate sound evokes the blistering heat of summer, layered with a hint of illicit romantic impulse.

It’s included on their 39th single, “Same numbers,” released in July 2025.

The lyrics, where curiosity about a more mature world intersects with a dangerous pull that seems ready to cross the line of common sense, embody a bold worldview that only an Under track can express.

It’s guaranteed to lift your spirits when you want to break free from the everyday!

Blue Hawaiitota

Blue Hawaii / Tota – Blue Hawaii / Tota

This song depicts a faint summer romance.

Released in August 2022, it sets the unspoken, frustrating feelings toward someone you love to a warm band sound.

Some listeners may find themselves overlaying their own bittersweet memories of love onto the image of someone who feels the cicadas’ chorus is far louder than their own feelings.

Featured as an insert song in the dating show “Koisuru ♥ Shūmatsu Homestay 2023 Natsu” and used in a Kao “Essential” commercial, this track invites you to listen while basking in your summer memories.

The summer you gave meieiri reo

Leo Ieiri - “The Summer You Gave Me” (Full Ver.)

This is a celebrated song by Leo Ieiri that became a massive hit as the theme for the Monday 9 p.m.

drama Koinaka.

Overlapping with the drama’s heartrending story starring Sota Fukushi and Tsubasa Honda, it’s a song that surely tightens many listeners’ chests.

Released in August 2015 as her 10th single, the track delicately depicts the sweet yet bittersweet emotions—from the pure beginning of a romance, to the frustrating drift of hearts without noticing, and the regret upon realizing there’s no going back.

Leo Ieiri’s clear, powerful vocals highlight the fleeting nature of summer and love.

It’s a beautiful, wistful summer song that makes you suddenly remember someone you loved, someone you may never see again.

Summer EndKoresawa

Koresawa “Summer End” Official Audio

The end of summer somehow feels a little lonely and makes you long for someone, doesn’t it? That’s when Koresawa’s track gently stays by your side.

You can almost see the scenes where the fleeting summer is overlapped with the “you” who’s no longer here.

It’s a mellow ballad that tenderly captures that helpless, aching feeling of a summer, a love, and a dream that never came true, carried by her smooth, wistful vocals.

This song is included on the mini-album “Summer Love,” released in August 2022, closing out an album packed with summer memories.

Listen to it on a late-summer drive or on your solitary walk home lost in thought, and you’ll feel a surge of affection for the season that has slipped away.