Love songs you want to listen to in summer. Love songs that color the summer.
Summer is the season when romance heats up!
With plans to go out with someone you like—to the beach, on drives, to festivals, and fireworks displays—many of you are probably gearing up to confess your feelings.
In this article, we’ve gathered love songs to cheer on your summer romance.
From classic summer love songs to tracks themed around fireworks and the sea, and even bittersweet tunes about unforgettable love that lingers into adulthood, we’re introducing a variety.
Turn up the mood with summer love songs, and enjoy summer and love to the fullest!
Love songs to listen to in summer. Summer-themed love songs (1–10)
melt summerMoka Sato
This is a track by Moka Sato, characterized by a mellow sound woven from shimmering synths and gentle guitars.
Released in August 2018, it was later included on the album “Merry go round.” It’s a song that quietly stays by your side during that indescribable loneliness that arrives at summer’s end.
The lyrics depict a fleeting summer romance that feels like it might melt away and disappear.
Perfect music for savoring beautiful memories while mourning the passing of summer.
OrangeGReeeeN
Conjuring up a scene bathed in the orange of dusk, this piece is a youthful love song that blends sweet-and-sour feelings with a sense of anticipation.
Many listeners may find themselves quietly thinking, “Love is wonderful,” moved by the exhilarating sound and lyrics that portray an overflowing, unstoppable rush of affection.
Released in April 2012 as a single by GReeeeN, it also became familiar as the song for Shiseido’s “SEA BREEZE” commercial.
On a summer walk home, why not recall that straightforward, earnest feeling of first love you’d nearly forgotten?
Slow & EasyHirai Dai
This song, distinguished by the gentle sound of the ukulele, is a piece that symbolizes Dai Hirai’s lifestyle.
It’s the title track of the album “Slow & Easy,” released in May 2015, and it was also used in a Sumitomo Forestry commercial.
Over time, it surpassed 100 million total streams in June 2022.
While it might seem like a simple, relaxing summer tune, the piece carries a profound message: happiness isn’t something you create—it’s something you notice.
In the rush of everyday life, do you ever find yourself comparing with others and feeling anxious? This is the kind of song that, when you listen to it at such moments, gives you a gentle pause that lightens your heart.
Love, Lala ~Where Love Is Headed~eill
A track by eill that evokes the glittering, slightly nostalgic sound of ’80s–’90s city pop.
As its moniker “summer love driving song” suggests, it portrays a romance where sweetness and heartache coexist.
You can feel the protagonist’s wavering emotions: anxiety about a relationship with no clear future, mixed with the resolve to move forward even if it means letting something go.
Having launched her full-fledged solo career in 2018, she released this song in July 2025, captivating listeners with its dramatic world-building.
It’s perfect for summer nights when you’re driving while thinking of someone special, or for a solo café moment when you want to sink into a slightly sentimental mood.
Its sophisticated melody will surely make your time feel special.
Midsummer FireworksLIL LEAGUE
A gem of a love song that likens a once-in-a-lifetime summer romance to the fleeting brilliance of fireworks painting the night sky.
Released in July 2025 as the fifth single, it was selected as the ending theme for Nippon TV’s “Wednesday Platinum Night.” Layering vocals over a dance track with traditional Japanese flair, it portrays a heartrending love.
Just reading the lyrics conjures up the relationship between the two and really tugs at the heartstrings.
Hearing this song will surely bring back the bittersweet memories of summer.
Crazy SummerKIRINJI
It’s a late-summer classic by KIRINJI.
The track appears on the EP “Sweet Soul ep,” released in March 2003, and is distinguished by Yasuyuki Horigome’s soft, translucent vocals—he also wrote the lyrics and composed the music.
If you listen to it on a sentimental night when you’re thinking of someone you can’t forget, it just might bring back the air of that day, still warm with heat.
It’s a song I especially recommend to anyone who has experienced an unforgettable, passionate love.
Blue Hawaiitota
This song depicts a faint summer romance.
Released in August 2022, it sets the unspoken, frustrating feelings toward someone you love to a warm band sound.
Some listeners may find themselves overlaying their own bittersweet memories of love onto the image of someone who feels the cicadas’ chorus is far louder than their own feelings.
Featured as an insert song in the dating show “Koisuru ♥ Shūmatsu Homestay 2023 Natsu” and used in a Kao “Essential” commercial, this track invites you to listen while basking in your summer memories.