Sitting at a burger spot in Kamakura watching surfers catch waves and seagulls soar along the shore, it was easy to imagine the colorful, coastal Japan depicted by the many artists that fall within the beach umbrella of the city pop genre. Think of this as a Day-Glo orange mixtape inserted into an aqua-colored boombox and transport yourself to the sunny sea with an air of a nostalgia for years you've never experienced.
1 Anri
Windy Summer
2 Masataka Mastutoya
Lovers Paradise
3 Cindy
Watashitachi Wo Shinjite Ite
4 Junko Ohashi
Telephone Number
5 1986 Omega Tribe
Kimi Wa 1000%
6 Yu Hayami
緑色のラグーン
7 Taeko Onuki
Tokai
8 Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki and Tatsuro Yamashita
Kiska
9 Momoko Kikuchi
Ocean Side
10 Makoto Matsushita
September Rain
11 Kingo Hamada
Dolphin in Town
12 Nina Atsuko
Icebox & Movie
13 Anri
Good Bye Boogie Dance
14 EPO
Down Town
15 Miki Matsubara
Mayonaka no Door / Stay With Me
16 Tatsuro Yamashita
Music Book
17 Masayoshi Takanaka
Tokyo Leggy
18 PIPER
Summer Breeze
19 CASIOPEA
Asayake
20 Tomoko Aran
Midnight Pretenders
21 Kaoru Akimoto
Dress Down
22 Kaoru Akimoto
Wagamama na High Heels
23 Meiko Nakahara
Dance in the Memories
24 Yurie Kokubu
I Wanna Be With You
25 Junko Yagami
1984
26 Yukihiro Takahashi
Present
27 Tatsuro Yamashita
Loveland, Island
28 Mariya Takeuchi
Plastic Love