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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. Beautiful, heartwarming messages (71–80)

Sakura SongKANA-BOON

KANA-BOON “Sakura no Uta” Music Video

Sakura no Uta by KANA-BOON

The song “Sakura no Uta” has that distinct KANA-BOON feel, and it hits you with an overwhelming sense of bittersweet emotion.

It’s a fan favorite included on their 2013 album “Boku ga CD wo Dashitara.” This poignant track looks back on a love that has ended, capturing the delicate feelings of springtime romance.

The melody gives off a buoyant, springlike lift, yet the lyrics are tear-jerking—utterly heart-wrenching and swoon-worthy.

Be sure to listen to its answer song as well, “Sakura no Shi,” which expresses the feelings from a woman’s perspective.

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A single petal of cherry blossomMISIA

A single cherry blossom petal ~ MISIA (covered by yuka & shihomi)

A Petal of Cherry Blossom MISIA

Included on the 2015 album “LOVE BEBOP.” Theme song for TV Tokyo’s 50th Anniversary Special Drama “The Eternal Zero.” Born in 1978, a singer from Nagasaki Prefecture.

This is her first song themed around cherry blossoms.

A track whose soulful vocals sink into the heart, carried by a moody, enveloping melody.

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Have the plums bloomed? Are the cherry blossoms not yet?Metis

Metis / Has the plum blossomed? Is the cherry blossom not yet?

Have the plum blossoms bloomed? Are the cherry blossoms not yet?

A single released in 2007.

Born in 1984, a singer-songwriter from Hiroshima Prefecture.

This was their first single after making a major-label debut.

Centered around the lyric phrase “The cherry blossoms will bloom,” it spread by word of mouth—particularly among students preparing for entrance exams—as a so-called “success/entrance exam song,” and became a hit.

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Sakura songs with great lyrics. Beautiful, heart-touching messages (81–90)

Cherry Blossom Rainabsorb feat. Hatsune Miku

With lyrics: Hatsune Miku - Sakura no Ame - PV

Sakura no Ame absorb feat. Hatsune Miku

In recent years, Vocaloid has become extremely popular, especially among elementary and middle school students! This song is a graduation anthem themed around cherry blossoms, representing Vocaloid music.

It’s also incredibly popular as a choral piece for graduation ceremonies.

The lyrics are striking, evoking memories of student life filled with youthful days.

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Come, springthe shes gone

the shes gone “Spring, Come” Music Video

Spring, come—The Shes Gone

A song by the shes gone that stirs the heart with the arrival of spring.

Featured on their February 2023 album HEART, this track captures overflowing feelings of love amidst the cherry blossom season, filled with the band’s heartfelt emotion.

With fresh lyrics and delicate phrasing, it beautifully conveys the uniquely springlike blend of wistful sadness and fluttering excitement.

The words, which touch on feelings for a loved one and the self-discoveries that come with falling in love, resonate deeply with listeners.

It’s a spring song that will set your heart racing at the start of a new season—highly recommended for you, too.

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Cherry blossoms, along the path where petals swirl upElephant Kashimashi

Elephant Kashimashi – “The Road Where Cherry Blossoms Dance Up”

Cherry blossoms, on the soaring road — Elephant Kashimashi

Sakura no Hana, Maiagaru Michi wo, released by Elephant Kashimashi in 2008, portrays a resolve to live forever together with a beloved person, building a future as beautiful as cherry blossoms.

It tells of how meeting someone special changed the narrator’s indifference toward cherry blossoms into a desire to walk toward a wonderful future with that person.

Encounters with others can truly transform our feelings, can’t they? If you’ve had a meeting that changed your life, please give this song a listen and let your future bloom even more.

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cherry blossom colorKaneyori Masaru

Kaneyori Masaru [Sakura-iro] Music Video

Sakura-iro Kaneyori Masaru

Cherry blossoms bloom in full glory with the arrival of spring.

Their beauty never fails to steal our hearts.

Kaneyori Masaru’s song gently portrays a love dyed in that cherry blossom–colored world.

Chitose Mina’s clear, transparent voice feels as if it rides the spring breeze and nestles close to your heart.

This track is included on the album “Watashi no Nocturne,” released in January 2023.

It was also featured in Yamada Denki’s new life campaign commercial, warming the hearts of many.

It’s a perfect song for anyone starting a new season with a touch of bittersweet feeling.

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