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

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Accompanist pianist × piano instructor × web writer. I began piano lessons at age four and, inspired by my piano teacher, decided to pursue music. I went on to specialized music programs in high school and university, where I discovered the appeal of accompanying instrumentalists and singers. Currently, alongside teaching piano, I work mainly in my home region of Aichi as an accompanist for flute, voice, choir, and more. Through lessons, my students often introduce me to trending songs, and my hobby is trying anything on the piano—Japanese and Western pop, commercial jingles, and beyond. Since 2021, I’ve also been active as a web writer, covering music and a variety of other genres.
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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!

Spring is a season of meetings and farewells.

Some loves begin, while others quietly come to an end.

In this article, we introduce recommended springtime love songs that capture all kinds of romances.

This time, we’ve picked a wide range—from timeless spring classics to the latest hits.

Whether you want to revisit a beloved masterpiece or discover a tear-jerking spring ballad, this playlist is perfect for you.

They’re also great for karaoke, so why not enjoy them with new friends you meet this spring?

[Spring Love Songs] Recommended Masterpieces and Popular Love Songs to Listen to During Cherry Blossom Season (131–140)

the first strong spring windChiaki Mayumura

[New Song] Chiaki Mayumura “Haru Ichiban” Music Video

Chiaki Mayumura, the First Spring Wind

The song produced by Chiaki Mayumura is a warm track that heralds the arrival of spring.

While depicting the start of a new season, it poignantly and beautifully captures moments of meeting and parting.

Included on the album “SAI,” the track was created as a tie-in with Ito En’s “Oi Ocha.” Lyrics interwoven with the elegance of haiku gently resonate with listeners on the verge of a new beginning.

Released in May 2023, this piece is perfect for anyone sensing the coming of spring.

Even those anxious about a new environment are sure to find courage by listening to this song.

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KoishunkaMizuki Hayama

Mizuki Hayama “Koiharuhi” MUSIC VIDEO

Koi Haruha Hayama Mizuki

It’s a song that beautifully weaves together the mood of spring and the stirrings of love.

The lyrics impressively depict scenes wrapped in the scent of plum blossoms and the chirping of small birds amid the spring haze.

While accepting the passage of time and the changing seasons, it quietly looks back on a love that has passed, touching the heart.

Released in January 2024, this is a track by Mizuki Hayama.

It’s recommended not only for enka fans, but also for anyone who feels a touch of loneliness with the arrival of spring.

It’s the kind of song you’ll want to stop and listen to just as the cherry blossoms begin to bloom.

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Sakura FuwariTakako Matsu

Takako Matsu “Sakura Fuwari” Live @ Love Love I Love You '98

Sakura, Lightly Floating — Takako Matsu

“Sakura Fuwari” is Takako Matsu’s fifth single, released in 1998.

The song was also used in a commercial for Takano Yuri Beauty Clinic, and it’s crafted to evoke an image of radiant beauty.

Incidentally, the lyrics—poetically expressing the gentle feelings of spring—were written by Matsu herself.

Her clear voice, which seems to cherish every single word as she sings, has a way of quietly sinking into your heart.

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Yearning for springA botanical way of life.

Yearning for spring

A botanical lifestyle that longs for spring.

The Tokyo-based six-piece pop band Botanical na Kurashi released their seventh digital single, “Haru ni Akogaru,” in April 2023.

It’s a warm, city pop-tinged pop tune where electric piano and saxophone resonate mellowly.

The pleasantly laid-back groove feels great.

True to the band’s motto—“A new paradise discovered by misfits in the Reiwa era”—it’s a track that gently unravels the heart.

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Sakura SongKANA-BOON

KANA-BOON “Sakura no Uta” Music Video

Sakura no Uta by KANA-BOON

A musician-like number with a story about putting feelings for a loved one into a song.

KANA-BOON’s “Sakura no Uta” is included on the 2013 mini-album “Boku ga CD wo Dashitara.” It portrays a younger self who couldn’t come up with clever words for the person they liked, struggled to put their feelings into music, and was still quite immature.

Even so, wanting to convey and deliver those feelings, they sing, laying their straightforward emotions over the melody they’d imagined.

Before you drift apart at graduation, why not, like this song, try expressing your feelings to someone important to you?

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Let's fall in love.NICO Touches the Walls

Nico Touches The Walls – Koi wo shiyou

Let's fall in love NICO Touches the Walls

As the title suggests, it’s a love song about pure romance.

The lyrics feel pure and a bit monotonous, but the jazzy chords blend in nicely and give it a stylish touch.

It’s wonderful when you can honestly tell someone you like that you love them, just like in this song.

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Taiwan cherryRen

Ren – Taiwan Cherry (Music Video)

Hikan-zakura Ren

Ren’s 2023 number “Hikan-zakura” is a song about someone you can never forget.

The more important a person is, the harder it is to let them go, no matter what you do.

Memories resurface, bringing pain and sorrow.

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Even so, as time refuses to stop, the song portrays the resolve to finally face forward and shift one’s heart.

It leaves you with the hope that, ahead on that path, spring will arrive with beautiful cherry blossoms in bloom.

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