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

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Sakuran / Mosawo [Music Video]

When you think of spring, you think of cherry blossoms—their splendor is captivating, yet they somehow carry a sense of transience and melancholy.

A love song that resonates with those feelings is Mosawo’s “Sakura Koi.” While many of Mosawo’s songs portray bittersweet emotions from a woman’s perspective, this track is overflowing with aching tenderness, a number that sings of unrequited love.

It tells of a romance that didn’t work out, a love that has to be given up, and the inability to fully let go comes through painfully clearly.

It’s a love song that also overlaps with the feelings of farewells during graduation season.

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Remioromen – Sakura

No matter how many times the cherry blossom season comes around, my feelings for you never change—Remioromen sings this single-minded devotion over a poppy, refreshing sound.

The song is included on their best-of album Remio Best and is praised by fans as a classic on par with their mega-hit Konayuki.

Whether you’re smiling at the cherry blossoms, feeling down after something sad, or putting on a brave face, every side of you is unbearably precious to me—if the person you love felt that way about you, there’d be nothing happier than that, would there?

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You know. / Are-kun & “Yuika” [MV]

This song is a collaboration between singer-songwriter Are-kun, who’s especially popular among younger generations and active mainly on social media, and Yuika.

Rather than a back-and-forth between a man and a woman, it paints an inner emotional landscape, tracing the path from a frustrating, almost-missed-connection kind of romance—where they’re actually into each other yet somehow out of sync—to finally becoming mutual.

As a viewer, you can’t help wanting to say, “Just confess already!” But that fluttery, awkward feeling of thinking it might be one-sided—that nervous limbo—is also one of the charms of love, isn’t it?

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Love so sweet – Arashi (Full)

A gem of a love song that became a massive hit as the theme for the drama “Hana Yori Dango 2.” Although the lyrics don’t include words like “spring” or “cherry blossoms,” its cheerful sound evokes fluttering sakura petals and perfectly captures the spring vibe.

One of Arashi’s signature tracks that conveys a love that won’t stop once it starts running.

It’s a recommended song for couples who’ve ended up in a long-distance relationship with the start of a new chapter, as well as for anyone hoping for a wonderful romance in the season of new encounters.

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Awesome City Club / Wasurena (MUSIC VIDEO)

Awesome City Club’s hit song “Wasurena” (勿忘), which also became a hot topic as the inspiration song for the film “We Made a Beautiful Bouquet,” starring Masaki Suda and Kasumi Arimura.

It feels like this track catapulted Awesome City Club into the spotlight.

Spring usually puts us in a buoyant mood as the weather finally warms up, yet many spring-themed songs are tinged with melancholy—and this song may well be one that embodies those feelings.

The male–female vocal interplay resonates all the more deeply.

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Official HIGE DANDism – 1,150,000 Kilometers of Film [Official Live Video]

This song, 115 Million Kilometer Film, included on Official HIGE DANDism’s first album, has also been featured in commercials, so many of you may have heard it.

It’s a heart-fluttering love song that likens a romance—and the future that follows—to a movie, to film.

Its light, bright melody is sure to lift your spirits in the spring.

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Mr.Children “Nameless Poem” Mr.Children “HOME” TOUR 2007 ~in the field~

This is a masterpiece—their 10th single—that achieved double million sales.

It’s a song about the shape of love that makes you think deeply about what love really is.

At first, it may sound like a straightforward love song, but the more you listen, the more the difficulty of love—and feelings of sadness and poignancy—grow stronger.