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A cherry blossom song with great lyrics. A wonderful, heartwarming message.

A cherry blossom song with great lyrics. A wonderful, heartwarming message.

Last updated:2025/9/25

A cherry blossom song with great lyrics. A wonderful, heartwarming message.

Editor-in-Chief, RAG MUSICKeisuke Hane
Editor-in-chief of RAG MUSIC. After working at a music studio and in wedding sound engineering, joined the RAG MUSIC editorial team in 2016. Experienced with various instruments: marching band in elementary school, clarinet in middle school wind ensemble, and drums in a band from high school onward. Drawing on personal music activities and professional experience, produces daily articles, including song introductions, features on music festivals around Japan, and live reports. Enjoys a wide range of music, from domestic and international rock to, more recently, a broad spectrum of J-pop.
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Deputy Editor of the web media RAG MUSIC. I’m Sasashina, a mom currently raising an elementary schooler and a preschooler. In my student days, I studied broadly at Kyoto College of Science and Technology, covering sound, lighting, and video technology, and acquired skills from comprehensive stage production to the fundamentals of creative expression. After graduation, I joined a music production company, where I still work, and have consistently built my career on the production side, taking on diverse tasks centered around music. Currently, I mainly handle articles for children, drawing on what I’ve learned about parenting in my own way, as well as insights and discoveries from interacting with my kids every day. I hope I can be of help to you, even just a little!

In Japan, when spring arrives, a lot of cherry blossom songs start to appear, don’t they?

For a long time, cherry blossoms have held a special place in the hearts of Japanese people, inspiring many songs filled with different emotions.

Love, graduation and farewells, starting school and new encounters… It’s precisely because of the season of spring and its beauty that cherry blossoms have become something we entrust our feelings to.

Among those sakura songs, there must be many people who want to listen to tracks with truly moving lyrics—songs that feel like they’re speaking on your behalf.

So in this article, we’ll introduce cherry blossom songs with wonderful lyrics!

They’re all masterpieces that will stay close to your heart, so if you find a favorite, try listening while reading the lyrics.

Cherry blossom songs with great lyrics. Touching, beautiful messages (1–10)

Sakura, flutterSouthern All Stars

Southern All Stars – Sakura, Hirari [Official Visualizer]

Cherry Blossoms, Gently — Southern All Stars

Southern All Stars’ new song is as beautiful and fleeting as a flurry of cherry blossoms, with a light, spring-breeze melody and refined Japanese lyrics that resonate in the heart.

It also carries a wish for recovery from the earthquake disaster.

Released digitally on January 1, 2025, it’s also included on the album “THANK YOU SO MUCH,” out in March.

The beauty and harshness of nature, loss and renewal, and hope—these are its profound themes.

How about taking a walk with someone dear during cherry blossom season while listening to this song? It’s sure to become an experience that deeply touches your heart.

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cherry blossomKetsumeishi

Sakura – Ketsumeishi (Full)

Sakura Ketsumeishi

Ketsumeishi, a group that has stayed at the top of Japan’s hip-hop scene.

Many of you probably sang this song together back in your school days.

While Ketsumeishi is generally known for a fun and humorous image, this is one of their serious tracks.

Listening to the lyrics again might bring back those memories from that time.

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Spring ThiefYorushika

Yorushika – Spring Thief (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

Spring Thief - Yorushika

“Spring Thief” is a song by Yorushika released in 2021, notable for its lyrics that evoke a beautiful flurry of cherry blossoms.

While it paints very lovely, springlike imagery, the lyricist n-buna has said that the cherry blossoms depicted in the lyrics represent life.

In other words, the blossoms that fall as the seasons advance symbolize lives fading away.

People sometimes say, “Cherry blossoms are beautiful because they fall,” and it makes one think that life, too, may be beautiful and precious because it is finite.

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On nights when cherry blossoms fallAimyon

Aimyon – On the Night the Cherry Blossoms Fall [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]

On nights when cherry blossoms fall, Aimyon

Aimyong’s songs all have great lyrics, and many of them really resonate with young women.

As the title suggests, “On Nights When Cherry Blossoms Fall” is a love song set in cherry blossom season.

Aimyong has a way of effortlessly putting into words—and into song—the kinds of feelings that are hard to express in everyday life, and I’m sure this track’s lyrics will hit home for women in love.

It’s a song that beautifully captures that mix of brightness and cheerfulness that comes with cherry blossom season, along with a touch of bittersweet melancholy.

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When cherry-blossom hues danceMika Nakashima

Mika Nakashima “Sakurairo Mau Koro” MUSIC VIDEO Shorts ver.

Sakurairo Mau Koro by Mika Nakashima

This is one of Mika Nakashima’s signature songs.

It tells a love story that blossoms from a springtime crush, only to end in heartbreak by winter, unfolding alongside the changing seasons.

The lyrics are cleverly crafted and truly beautiful, aren’t they? Her clear, translucent voice enhances the song’s appeal even more.

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We againSG

Us, Again – SG (Official Lyric Video)

We’re in SG again.

It’s a heartwarming song that pairs perfectly with the cherry blossom season.

SG’s gentle vocals weave together memories and hope.

Centered on the themes of parting and reunion, it conveys the importance of the days we spent and our expectations for the future.

Released in April 2021, the piece resonated with many listeners.

In November 2024, a wind ensemble version was featured in a CalorieMate commercial, adding a new layer of appeal.

It’s a track you’ll want to listen to at graduations and other life milestones.

Highly recommended for those facing farewells with friends who want a bit of courage for the road ahead.

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spring melancholyMrs. GREEN APPLE

Mrs. GREEN APPLE – Spring Melancholy

Spring Melancholy (Mrs. GREEN APPLE)

It’s a heartwarming song you’ll want to listen to during the season when cherry blossoms flutter in the air.

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GREEN APPLE’s delicate vocals gently embrace the loneliness of graduation and farewells, as well as the anticipation of a new beginning.

Released in February 2018 as the B-side to the single “Love me, Love you,” the track was also featured in a commercial for Suntory’s Craft Boss.

Its melody and lyrics poignantly capture the melancholy and wistfulness that come with the arrival of spring, making it a recommended listen during graduation and school entrance ceremony season.

It’s a song that will resonate with those who want to reminisce about their youth or who feel anxious about starting a new chapter in life.

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