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

gardenFujii Kaze

Fujii Kaze – Garden (Not a MV)

A song by Fujii Kaze that interweaves the changing of the seasons with the fragility of human relationships.

Its gospel-tinged, soothing melody and profound lyrics resonate deeply with listeners.

Included on the album “LOVE ALL SERVE ALL,” the track was also featured in NatureLab’s “Laundrin” TV commercial.

Since its release in March 2022, it has been widely embraced by fans.

It’s a piece that stays close to those experiencing new encounters and farewells with the arrival of spring.

Recommended for anyone seeking a fresh start or wishing to keep moving forward while feeling life’s impermanence.

bookmarkCreepHyp

CreepHyp - “Bookmark” (MUSIC VIDEO)

CreepHyp’s song gently encourages you to take a new step after a breakup.

Set against a spring scene of falling cherry blossoms, it delicately portrays feelings where lingering attachment to the past intersects with hope for the future.

Included on the album “NakITakunaru Hodo Ureshii Hibi ni,” the track was released in September 2018.

This piece quietly supports anyone who has experienced a farewell or needs courage to dive into a new environment.

Listen to it during the season of spring goodbyes, and it will surely give you the strength to face forward and start walking.

EnchantedSaucy Dog

Saucy Dog “Enchanted” Music Video

Saucy Dog is a three-piece band that even performed at NHK’s Kōhaku Uta Gassen at the end of 2022.

Their song “Mahō ni Kakararete” (Enchanted) was released digitally in March 2022 and served as the theme song for Abema’s dating show “Koisuru ♡ Shūmatsu Homestay 2022 Spring.” It’s a heart-fluttering tune—not exactly a “spring song” with explicit spring imagery, but it gently warms the heart with its depiction of love, making it perfect to listen to in spring and a great pick for couples who are mutually in love.

It will truly make you think, “I hope this happiness lasts forever.”

SAKURA, I love you？Kana Nishino

Kana Nishino - “SAKURA, I love you?” (short ver.)

A female singer who enjoys overwhelming support from younger generations for her cute vocals and heartbreakingly relatable lyrics, Kana Nishino’s 16th single.

Chosen as a SONY WALKMAN commercial song, its melody, which carries a distinctly Japanese atmosphere, evokes images of cherry blossoms.

The portrayal of losing oneself after a breakup is something anyone who has ever been in love can’t help but relate to.

A delicate and bittersweet number that colors spring, the season of partings.

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Sing of spring

When it comes to love songs, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call the three-piece rock band back number a byword for the genre.

Their song “Haru wo Uta ni Shite” (Make Spring into a Song) is included on their indie-era debut album “Nogashita Sakana,” released in 2009, and it’s a love song that’s very popular among fans.

From the intro, it already evokes a bittersweet spring, a track packed with feelings so intense they make your chest ache.

For those who can’t forget someone, or who have experienced heartbreak, it’s surely a song that will bring you to tears.

When cherry-blossom hues danceMika Nakashima

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.

10-year cherry blossomsAKB48

[MV full] 10nen Zakura / AKB48 [Official]

A heartwarming AKB48 song that accompanies the season of graduations and farewells.

Its lyrics, depicting friends vowing to reunite in ten years, beautifully capture the universal loneliness of parting and the hope for the future.

Released in March 2009, the track became the group’s first to reach the Oricon Top 3.

It’s a gentle push for those taking a new step with the arrival of spring, and is also recommended as background music for send-offs and graduation ceremonies.