Songs for every season: classic and popular tunes of spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
When is your favorite season?
Japan has beautiful scenery in each of its four seasons, revealing different expressions throughout the year.
I’ve put together a playlist of recommended songs that celebrate Japan’s unique four seasons.
Listen to this playlist, and you can journey through an entire year!
Songs of the four seasons. Spring, summer, autumn, and winter — classic and popular seasonal songs (1–10)
four seasons progressionMegatera Zero
Megatera Zero is a singer known for his husky, emotional voice.
This song is one of four released simultaneously in September 2025.
It’s a mid-tempo ballad with the warm tones of acoustic guitar, and its lyrics, which mirror the changing relationship between two protagonists with the shifting seasons, inevitably make you reflect on your own experiences.
The pain of growing accustomed to each other—and the strength to keep walking together nonetheless—are beautifully expressed through Megatera Zero’s delicate vocals.
It’s a song that gently stays by your side during the changing of the seasons.
All of the YouthFujifabric
This is a classic song by Fujifabric that you suddenly feel like listening to in the season where summer ends and autumn begins.
The longing for the passing summer and the brilliance of youth that will never return are layered over the image of the “last fireworks,” and its bittersweet melody sinks deep into the heart.
Released as a single in November 2007, the track later stayed with many listeners as an insert song in the drama SUMMER NUDE.
There’s also a lovely anecdote that in the composer’s hometown, the song was played as the evening chime for three days in December 2012.
On nights when you want to bask in summer memories, or on a sentimental walk home, why not give it a quiet listen?
Hot LimitT.M.Revolution
In this song, T.
M.
Revolution’s outfit became a hot topic.
It was a very revealing costume made by wrapping cloth tape, and in 2016 he appeared on a music show in the same outfit for the first time in 18 years (a newly made version, sized up), which caused a stir.
He’d bulked up so much that it looked like a completely different thing though (lol).
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Wintersumika
A song that beautifully portrays the changing of the four seasons, which gained attention as the theme song for the animated film Let Me Eat Your Pancreas.
Released by sumika in August 2018, this slow ballad features a warmly resonant acoustic guitar, and the delicate emotions depicted across spring, summer, autumn, and winter deeply move the listener.
Along with the shifting seasons, memories with a loved one and farewells are depicted, and the hope that leads into the next spring is expressed through gentle vocals and melody.
Its beautiful, heartrending lyrics—echoing the film’s story—are sure to resonate deeply with anyone who has experienced parting from someone dear.
Spring, Summer, Autumn, WinterHilcrhyme
A gem of J-pop released in September 2009 that beautifully portrays the changing of the seasons.
In this offering from Hilcrhyme, vivid seasonal imagery and the subtleties of romance are delivered over a melodious hook, making for a touching love song.
Cherry blossoms in spring, fireworks in summer, autumn foliage, and winter snowscapes—quintessentially Japanese scenes—are woven together and overlap with memories shared with a lover.
Recommended for those who want to feel the joy of spending time with someone special and the beauty of the four seasons.
SenbonzakuraWagakki Band
It was originally a song by the Vocaloid Hatsune Miku, and later Wagakki Band covered it.
With this song, Wagakki Band made their first appearance on Music Station.
The vocalist, Yuko Suzuhana, is a certified master of shigin (a traditional form of Japanese recitation), which gives her singing its distinctive style.
red-yellow fragrant olive (Osmanthus fragrans)Fujifabric
This song is the third single by Fuji Fabric.
It was written by their vocalist at the time, Masahiko Shimura.
Shimura passed away on December 24, 2009 (cause unknown), and the band was forced to suspend activities afterward.
However, in August 2010 they announced that the remaining three members would continue, and they have been active since then.