karaoke Archives - Ja(a)pan

18. December 2024 Mia Jaap

FamilyMart + Karaoke: Singing at the Convenience Store?

While walking around Kamata, I came across this slightly unusual convenience store: A FamilyMart combined with karaoke. Best of both worlds?

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25. February 2020 Mia Jaap

1Kara: Solo Karaoke in Shinjuku

Whether you just want to practice, don’t want to bother others with singing out of tune or just for personal enjoyment, there are plenty of reasons going solo at karaoke. „Hitokara“ (hitori: alone, kara: karaoke) is big in Japan.

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27. August 2012 Mia Jaap

Karaoke Meet-up Tokyo

Sometimes meet-ups groups wake up from their year-long slumber, such as the Karaoke Group. The meet-up venue was Karaoke no Tetsujin in Shinjuku, a karaoke chain that offers various rooms, including big ones for company parties.

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22. February 2012 Mia Jaap

Solo Karaoke

Karaoke is either done with friends/colleagues (Asia) or in a bar in front of people you don’t know (West). But friends don’t always have time and trying out new songs in front of others can be embarrassing.

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22. August 2008 Mia Jaap

Kirin Beer Factory – Class Trip C11

Time for another class trip, this time with the C11 and Suzuki-sensei. I was a bit confused when I arrived at the Kirin Beer Factory and only found the Korean girls from my former class.