![]() ![]() Regardless, since none of us are able to travel to Japan anytime soon or rent out our own karaoke rooms in our respective cities, we’re going to have to settle for belting out Beyoncé at home. Or maybe it’s the food and drink: all-you-can-down glasses of Kahlua milk or plum wine served with steaming curry, mayo-glazed takoyaki, or smuggled assorted snacks from the Japanese convenience store - often cheaper and better than karaoke bar offerings. Maybe it’s because of the lack of a cool-kid factor everyone is genuinely having fun singing their favorite tunes in private rooms among friends without worrying about their pitch or lack of vibrato. Perhaps it’s due to the liveliness of Shibuya, where certain karaoke rooms tower over the rest of the city and look out on swarms of people going about their nights. Singing karaoke in Japan is unlike any other experience I’ve had at my typical haunts in Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo or Manhattan’s Koreatown. ![]()
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