[2025] A classic song themed around summer festivals. A song of summer memories.
When you think of summer, it’s the season of summer festivals and fireworks.
Hearing the festival music brings back happy memories, and those who love festivals might feel their excitement bubbling up.
In this article, we’ll introduce songs themed around summer festivals and fireworks, as well as tunes that capture summer memories.
From lively, boisterous tracks that embody the fun of festivals to beautiful, fleeting songs about a bittersweet summer romance, these recommendations are full of summer vibes.
If you’re looking for festival songs or summer-themed tracks, or want to listen to songs about summer festivals, be sure to check them out!
- Popular Festival Songs Ranking [2025]
- [Let's Enjoy Japanese Festival Songs!] Songs about festivals. Famous songs related to festivals.
- [2025] Bon Odori songs every kid knows! A roundup of fun festival tunes
- [Summer Anisongs] Iconic and Popular Anime Tracks That Feel Like Summer
- Games that liven up festivals. Ideas that children can enjoy.
- [2025] Iconic songs and love songs themed around or set by the sea and sandy beaches — sea songs
[2025] Masterpieces themed around summer festivals. Songs of summer memories (21–30)
MatsuriYuma Teranishi feat. Pinko Izumi
This work, featuring an impressive fusion of traditional Japanese elements and EDM, is a wildly upbeat celebratory number created under the theme of “connecting the world through laughter.” Released in August 2025, it drew major attention for its cross-generational collaboration between singer-songwriter Yuma Teranishi and actor Pinko Izumi.
The structure, where Teranishi’s high-tone vocals intersect with Izumi’s punchy, declamatory singing, delivers a truly festival-like exhilaration.
It might be just the thing to listen to when you want to blow your worries away!
Somewhere in the summerWANIMA
It’s a song brimming with WANIMA’s positive energy, perfect for kicking off a refreshing summer.
It portrays the determination to keep moving forward despite hesitation and the desire to cast off sorrow and shine like the sun, all carried by a powerful sound.
Included on the single “Summer Trap!!” released in July 2019, it was also featured as the CM song for Asahi Soft Drinks’ “Mitsuya Cider 2019.” Together with a music video that evokes scenes of summer festivals, the track is embraced as an uplifting anthem that gives you a push at the start of summer.
Highly recommended for anyone about to take on something new.
Summer boom!Poppin’party
If we’re talking about a song with a heart-thumping pop sound that colors the summer night sky like brilliant fireworks, it has to be that up-tempo number by Poppin’Party, doesn’t it? The worldview painted by the lyrics is masterful: you can practically see the bittersweet youthfulness of two people seeking a secret moment together amid the bustling clamor of a summer festival, hearts fluttering in their yukata.
You can feel the protagonist’s earnest feelings and rising excitement, as they layer their hopes and wishes for the future onto the grand fireworks blooming across the night sky.
This track was included as a coupling song on Poppin’Party’s seventh single, “Time Lapse,” released in September 2017, and was later featured on the album “Breakthrough!” It’s also familiar to fans as an event theme song in the game “BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!” and it’s a guaranteed crowd-pleaser live—at a 2018 concert the entire venue twirled towels in unison, and the Taiwan show thrilled fans with water-gun effects.
It’s perfect for times when you want to feel the full-body rush of a festival, or when you want your heart to twinge with the fleeting memories of a summer romance.
It’s also ideal for cranking the festival mood to the max with friends, brimming with a mysterious charm that brings a smile to everyone who listens.
Secret talk＝LOVE
Set against the backdrop of a summer festival, this song poppily captures the heart-fluttering moment when a secret relationship with a longtime crush begins.
It was released digitally in August 2025.
The lyrics, penned by producer Rino Sashihara, are infused with a sweet-and-sour exhilaration—the feeling of wanting to boast about getting closer to someone you like, even though you can’t tell anyone.
Emi Ohtani, who takes center position, delivers a gentle vocal that beautifully conveys the protagonist’s wavering feelings of love.
Let this pop love song elevate your summer mood!
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.
Magic hourGreen Yellow Society
On a summer evening at dusk, when the sky is dyed with a magically beautiful gradient, it stirs a bittersweet, slightly wistful feeling, doesn’t it? This piece by Ryokuoushoku Shakai gently accompanies such a scene—a heartwarming song about mutual love.
In the lyrics, the cherished person is likened to fireworks blooming gloriously in the night sky, while the singer likens themselves to the water’s surface quietly reflecting those fireworks, depicting a steadily growing, honest and pure emotion.
Its hauntingly nostalgic, beautiful melody evokes the wistfulness of summer’s end—an enchanting track that makes the heart flutter.
Released in August 2023, the song colored the story as an insert track for Fuji TV’s Monday 9 p.
m.
drama “Midsummer Cinderella,” and is also included on the album “Channel U.” If you share this song with someone you love while holding your joyful summer memories close, it might deepen the bond between you even more.
Goldfish scoopingYo Hitoto
Inspired by that familiar game from summer night stalls, this classic by Yo Hitoto beautifully captures the passing of the seasons, fleeting feelings of love, and a touch of melancholy nostalgia.
Beginning with a quiet piano melody that gradually shifts into a seductive R&B vibe, the sound seems to mirror the loneliness that follows a summer festival.
The choice of words and rhythmic flow evoke scenes like lights shimmering on the water’s surface.
Released in July 2003 as Hitoto’s third single, the song reached No.
13 on the Oricon weekly chart.
That same month, a special live show for purchasers, “Sarasaraiya,” was held at Tokyo Kinema Club—an unforgettable memory for fans.
It’s also included on the album “Hitotoso.” This is a song you’ll want to hear at summer’s end, when you’re in the mood to savor a touch of bittersweet afterglow or the quiet that settles in after lively days.