We came to Do Re Mi Karaoke planning to stay just a couple of hours, but ended up losing track of time because we were having such a great time. The private rooms are a bit dated, but everything still works well and the karaoke system is easy to use, even for beginners. The staff member was friendly, patient, and helpful throughout our visit. Another big plus is that they allow outside food and drinks, which made the experience even better since we could grab snacks next door at the convenience store. Overall, it's a fun, laid-back place to hang out with friends and sing your heart out. We'll definitely be back! read more

Have been here years ago but came back recently for karaoke after calling other spots in the area that were full. We got a small room for about $30/hour for two hours and seems like the prorate the time you go over so that's nice! The sound system is pretty good and loud. I'd say selection of songs is pretty decent as well and they update new songs too. Can mainly speak to the Korean song selection because that's what we focused on that night but they do have other languages too! They have enhypen's newer songs like no doubt and loose, which was great for us! The song queuing takes a little bit of learning but isn't too hard and you can always ask the staff about it! Definitely would come back again! read more

Honestly one of the best, most affordable karaoke spots in the city! They have a BYO drink and food policy which is great considering there is a liquor store right next door! Pricing varies depending on room size, but very affordable compared to other spots in the city. We did a 5 person room for a little over an hour and it came out to about $13 per person. The rooms are a little crummier than other spots but it's part of the charm. Sometimes you just need to sing your heart out and this spot definitely does the job. One note, their keyboard is a little hard to read if you can't read Korean! read more

Pros: BOYB and bringing in your own food at no charge. Never heard of that before for any Karaoke place but it was convenient and easy. There is also a bodega right next to it so getting more snacks or drinks is easy. The songs list (english) is pretty good in my opinion. The price point for the city isnt that bad either. Cons: This place aint the most modern place. read more

This place is in my regular circulation of fun things to do on a weekday evening. I love that you can just walk in on a Monday or Tuesday and not have to make a reservation, and you can just spontaneously have a private karaoke party! It's a don't ask/don't tell in terms of BYOB, so you can Just bring what you want in a bag and they won't question you. The family that owns the business is very friendly and accommodating. It's a guaranteed affordable, fun time, and I love going there and have done for years. read more

Do Re Mi Music Studio - My fierce cover of Africa by TOTO - Karaoke Near Me - San Francisco, California

The good: Reasonable price for the location, a wide variety of languages (songs). The bad: we wanted to add time and they said no. But we didn't see anyone waiting, and there was an empty room. read more

Had a blast trying out this karaoke place with my boyfriend! It has been so long since we went to one. We usually go to karaoke boxes in Little Tokyo in LA. But never found a Japantown, SF equivalent till now! They charge by the hour. I think evening prices might be pricier than day prices. We went at around 8pm for an hour and the total came out to about $30. Not bad for an hour of good ol belting session at the top of your lungs in the privacy of your own room! You're able to control the volume of both the bg music and mics. The guy at the counter kindly explained the song queue for us. There is a very adorable dog at the front that seems very friendly! I only heard him bark once when we were already deep into our karaoke session. I think it was from someone else singing a sour note. Hee hee jk it was probably something else. Love that you're able to bring your own food and drinks here! We didn't really take advantage of that since we came after dinner, just had a drink with us. But there's a liqour store right next door which is just perf. Will definitely be going there next time! The place seems like it's been around for a while but I think it was clean and they even gave us socks for our mics! Love this place! We had a blast and will defs be coming back here again. read more

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Family owned business for 30+ years! Had not been in for two decades--Thomas was still there! $30+tax ($33) for an hour of fun! Old school song books in laminated sheets, listed by song title. Decent song selection. Thomas was there to give us a quick demo on how to work the song selection pad. Brought back many good memories and your house guests will love it! read more

Do re mi music studio is a solid place for private room karaoke. There are no frills associated with this place and the rooms are pretty bare bones (sofa and a functioning equipment) but they have a pretty solid selection of music and I like that they don't have a cap on the number of people necessarily (they charge per head). we were able to walk in with a small group of six people on a Saturday night at 9:30 PM and stay until midnight. The place is BYOB which is pretty nice! They should fix the water fountain and have at least water available from the sink. Only bottled soda and water available for purchase. read more

How much to we LOVE Do Re Mi? Easily the BEST karaoke place in the city, DRM's cozy rooms and fantastic selection of songs will elevate your inner-songster to new heights! Bring friends, food, and drink and unleash the crooning Kraken. All of this plus you're in J-town, the service is unparalleled, and they have a cute dog named Max! read more

Not wanting the night to end and filled with energy, my friends and I were browsing Yelp for an Asian karaoke place with rooms available for last minute walk-ins on a Friday night. Needless to say, the reviews here did not lead us astray! Do Re Mi Music Studio is located near the Japantown Malls (think about 1 block away) and when we came around 12am, there was plenty of street parking available. We called ahead around 11:30pm to check for availability and thankfully, they had a couple small rooms. We were a party of 4, so this was perfect for us. It was $33/hr and pro-rated after. This place doesn't have the most updated tech, but it has all the basics that will ensure you have a great time belting out and singing as loud as you can with your group. The equipment is easy to use and there's a binder full of their song selection to type into the TV, which was pretty diverse! They have East Asian and English songs - and even songs that were recently released (ie, they had some songs from Taylor Swift's Midnights album). As a group of Swifties, we were very happy with this discovery. What better way to prepare for her concert than to karaoke with Taylor Swift songs?!! You're also able to bring your own food and drinks here. We had dinner and drinks beforehand, so we didn't bring anything, but this was a good-to-know fact for the future. The rooms also felt pretty clean, so overall, a good place to go karaoke with friends. Not the fanciest place, but it's affordable and has everything you need for a good time. read more

This was my first time going to this karaoke place and it was great first experience. After dinner my friends and I walked over here from the Fillmore. This place definitely had a lot of song options. What I like most is that you can bring your own drink and food into the karaoke room. There is a corner store right next to it if you want to buy alcohol or snacks to bring. The only thing I noticed that I didn't like is that the furniture and room were pretty run down and outdated. Other than the appearance it was super fun. read more

Do Re Mi Music Studio - Tv and karaoke machine in our room - Karaoke Near Me - San Francisco, California

Friendly staff and they have a great selection of songs. A little bit pricey but overall a great experience! read more

Do Re Mi Music Studio - Friendly and a they have great selection of songs - Karaoke Near Me - San Francisco, California

We've had a lot of great nights at Do Re Mi, it's the locals' spot, if you know you know type of place. Great song selection on the korean button karaoke system they have, I prefer it over the chinese system on the fancy touch screens. Price is good and service is good. And cute dog. read more

Reasonable price for the room. I got a two hour time slot in a Friday night day of. It does just have the bare bones like literally the benches, coffee table, and a strobe light but that's all I really need. We ended up having 7 people total they told me I could bring 10 but I don't think we could've fit any more people comfortably. BYOB policy is perfect for a fun cheap night. Great song selection also had some really recent songs. read more

This place is the same as it was 13 years ago. They're affordable, there's no time limit, you queue songs using binders and remotes, and you can BYOB. I did get some bites after I left (that may or may not be associated with a dog that's onsite), so that's the only reason I am less enthusiastic about returning. read more

Do Re Mi takes you back to the basics of satisfying karaoke. It's got the essentials - affordability, decently sized private rooms (up to 14, as intimate as 4-5), extremely loud karaoke machines with key modification options, a decent and well updated English (and East Asian) song selection, two loud mics, a table for late night snacks and drinks, a convenience store next door to purchase said late night snacks and drinks, a bathroom, a dog. 10/10 read more

I really didn't know these type of Karaoke places still exists. Come on. It's 2018. We expect 100% clean rooms, touchscreen, wireless microphones, and the newest songs. Do Re Mi is the complete opposite. Plus the restroom are super gross. read more

i came here on my birthday with my family and it was PERFECT for what i wanted to do! not a lot of places will allow BYOB/BYOFood but this place does. they have a super extensive song list and have a looot of new music which is so fun. would recommend :) read more

Amazing! Here's the protips: - The remote is all korean but you really need 3-4 buttons (start, stop, and reserve) - Ask for tambourines - Walkins are good but reserve on saturdays - BYO beer and food - HAVE FUN!!! read more

Do Re Mi Music Studio - Hanging at doremi the best - Karaoke Near Me - San Francisco, California

Such a fun place close to Japantown mall. You can rent a karaoke room for 1 hour for $30. They allow your own food, snacks, drinks to bring. read more

Fun no-re-bang in Japan Town. Price is cheap. This isn't some high-end place so don't expect much. If you just want to sing with friends and get blasted, come here. If you want drink,food service sitting on crate-and-barrel couches with high-fidelity speakers with nice subwoofers, don't come here please. read more

This place is fairly cheap, $30/hr a room for a small room (up to 4). It was clean and perfectly fine. The song selection was kind of pants, or maybe they just organize it really badly. The binders are ordered alphabetically by song title, which is pretty difficult (as opposed to by artist). Then, the more recent songs (recent as in last ~ 2 years) are organised by month? Or something like that, at the end of the binder. All of this made it super hard to figure out if they had a certain song at all. It seemed like that had a decent collection of songs through the mid 2010's but not a great selection after that. There are also basically no songs in any language other than English and Korean. I was interested in Chinese songs and they only had a single page (maybe 25 songs?). read more

Probably one of the best karaoke in San Francisco. The staffs are super friendly and happy to help you with the machine. There's a dog in the front sometime. You can bring your own drinks from the liquor store next door too! read more

We had a great time, invite your friends and bring all the snacks and alcohol you want because they don't serve any of that but it's well worth your time l. read more

Super accommodating staff. I can tell that they were greatly affected by covid so I'm trying to bring as much business as possible! I used to come here 5+ years ago as the GO to karoake spot, but I think a few more modern spots opened up in the last few years. Nonetheless, the owners were open to BYOB (which is unheard of because they typically make their money on drinks!). This was super awesome so we went to the safeway a couple of blocks away and grabbed some drinks. The machines are a bit outdated and hard to press the buttons accurately, but I didn't mind it so much. We ended our session a bit earlier than expected and they only charged us for half an hour versus the full hour. I hope they survive the pandemic and really hope more people make it out to karoake! read more

Seedy and inexpensive, this place is perfect for you and your stupid friends to scream into a microphone. I got the "VIP" room and let me tell you that it is a room. We could bring our own drinks and pizza to keep the cost reasonable. We acted like absolute buffoons and they were very hospitable to us. They even had a very nice Labrador at the front desk for us to pet! If you're idea of karaoke is shouting "no diggity" into a microphone with a group of idiots then hot damn you found your spot. read more

Strong no. This place is literally just a room with broken couches, coffee table, old school big butt tv, binder music list, a control panel with korean on it and 2 mics. The binder is sorted by song title and loose sheets at the end for newly added music. For a little over an hour, it was $29. Price goes up after 7pm. Thin walls so people can hear you belting out lyrics outside. Music selection is not that great. Their update list for the month usually features music from a few months back. If you want a song, punch in a number and start. You can queue a song by punching the number and pressing reserve. If you want to skip, you stop the current song and press start. All the music here is basically instrumental. Like not even the original song instrumental. It's just bad... and there's no back vocals, all I hear is myself singing (which I definitely do not prefer). Also, no music video. You are watching random scenary and such... Like why do I wanna rap to a deer licking its fawn?! AWKWARD. It's just such a hassle here. Granted it's cheap but I'd definitely wait for Fillmore Karaoke. Will not be coming back here. read more

I came with two friends on a Friday night and the three of us booked a small room. We had reserved it in advance, but the place didn't seem too busy and we were able to extend our reservation to two hours instead of one. This was my first time going to karaoke so I don't have a good comparison to other places, but overall I thought it was a great experience for a cheap price, $30 / hour / small room for up to 6 people (so even though there were only 3 of us, the price was still reasonable). This particular venue was alcohol-free, which I didn't mind. The rooms had good sound proofing so although you can hear people singing from the hallways, inside a room you can't really hear other rooms. They had a good selection of songs in English as well as other languages; the two of us who speak Chinese found plenty of songs to sing in Chinese, and the third person who was Vietnamese also found a song to sing in Vietnamese. We found most songs we wanted to sing in English. The Asian language songs seemed to be not as recent so we didn't find recent pop songs (at least among the Chinese songs). One warning: there was a dog at the front desk that barked loudly. I didn't mind but it might scare some people. If my friends and I want to do karaoke again, we would definitely consider coming here again! read more

Best karaoke studio in the city. BYOB, the folks running it are incredibly generous and nice, and the place is clean. The rooms are definitely not flashy and they're dated, but you also pay great rates for the room size. I've never been disappointed with a trip to Do Re Mi and can't wait to go again. read more

I had heard about "real" karaoke places like this, but was too much of a wimp to lead my friends to one. Thankfully I ended up at 2am with a more savvy buddy who knew this place was perfect for after hours. The staff was super nice and led our inebriated group into a private room. Alcohol (or at least our bottle of vodka) is technically a no-no, but if you discretely BYOB they aren't going to go medieval on you. Oh and you'll want a bunch of friends (5-10) to keep it interesting, it is private after all. Not having to wait 3 hours for "Bossy" to come up? Priceless. Endnote: Bossy is a song by Kelis with the following refrain, "I'm bossy, I'm the first girl to scream on a track, I switched up the beat of the drum, that's right i brought all the boys to the yard, and that's right, i'm the one that's tattooed on his arm." Sure laugh now, but you know you want to sing it. read more

It stinks in here. And it's not the smell of cigarette butts and soda stains either. I can't fathom as to how this place stays open for business. The EPA needs to make an unannounced visit cause something is very wrong. Check out the restroom. Disturbing. DIRTY SOUTH Stains on the carpet, layers of dust, and the song book pages stuck together with grime. The music system seems like a bad nightmare from the 80's. Don't know if they carry any of the latest songs, but the room prices seemed OK. There are other options around the area, yet the natives choose to come here. I don't understand that logic. Might be a good idea to venture elsewhere. Especially, where you can get a decent adult beverage to accompany that very sad breakup song that you belted out 15 minutes ago. read more

Do Re Mi Music Studio - Even the Chum Churum can't help this Noraebang. - Karaoke Near Me - San Francisco, California

I've never been to a karaoke music studio so I can't really say how this compares, but my girls and I had a fab time here for my bachelorette party. I always thought you only could do karaoke at a bar. Here you get a provide room so you don't have to embarrass yourself in front of strangers... just your closest friends. (And you can hear people in other rooms as you walk by so them, too.) We got a small room with two couches, a microphone, a TV, and a catalog of songs. The catalog was pretty substantial and we enjoyed singing together (no solo spots for us) to: The Final Countdown (my favorite) Nothing Compares 2 U (my other favorite) American Pie Material Girl Hotel California The Sign Roxanne I didn't realize this kind of fun existed! read more

Great place in Japantown for Karaoke with large groups in private rooms. I'm not into doing karaoke with strangers, but if you've got a good group of friends this is the place to go. read more

I walked in and the first thing I smelled were cleaning agents. Went into one of the rooms and was greeted with a sticky floor, bad quality tvs with 90's style sound systems. My ears were ringing after I left. Restrooms are like a club after everyone's puked in it -- Unsanitary and questionable. After coming here, it made me miss the karaoke places down in Monterey Park and ktown even more. Again, my ears are still hurting! read more

There may be a nostalgic love for Do Re Mi's frequent set of patrons, but for out of towners like myself, it's nothing but a dive karaoke bar that is dying for a makeover. Located in Japantown proper, Do Re Mi was one of the city's first Asian karaoke establishments. Now dated and reeking of cigarettes and who knows what, it's one of the seedy Korean joints that have inspired a whole new crop of places that do what DRM does, but only far better. For those hip to Korean music, you're in luck. Do Re Mi's current collection of Ziller (www.ziller.kr) hits are immortalized in plastic pages stuck together in the form of several song books. English songs for Ziller savvy folks are going to be a minimum, with random hits here and there with more that are tied to previous decades than the current one. The selection is virtually non-existent for anything else. The sound system is pretty consistent with each of the tiny rooms, which is LOUD. Instead of proper sound proofing for every space, it's just drowned out by the volume of the shoddy speakers within each room. There is no mistake here folks, being loud means the staff doesn't have to worry if the machines aren't working. Speaking of the staff, service here is practically null. The only time I've seen giddy attitudes was when they were taking my money and at $20 per hour, it's probably more than anyone ought to pay for the unkept facilities. The men's bathroom is straight foul, soap needs to be replenished and the paper towels always seem to be out. Since they don't serve alcohol, it seems most of the folks coming here attempt to sneak it in. It's not pretty, but in this noraebang world, it's reality. read more

Don't expect this place to be some fancy joint with leather seats, fancy lighting or a high tech karaoke system. Best way I could describe this place is that it's a "dive karaoke spot" but WE LOVE IT! No frills, no extras. Pretty cheap compared to other karaoke places in the city without being too dingy or sketchy. This place does not serve drinks or food. It's BYOB. The owner said we could bring our own stuff as long as we clean up after ourselves. There is a liquor store right next to DoReMi so usually we'd buy our "drinks" and snacks there and bring them in. Song selection is not bad. They have a good mix of old and new stuff and all the karaoke classics. The karaoke system is kinda old school with the giant karaoke remotes and giant CRT TVs (the old box TVs lol) Super retro vibe. Best part of this place? There is a cute Labrador at the reception area read more

Warning****** STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLCE**** This is the worst kareoke you can go to. Songs are ourdated and their TV is old as fuck. i could hear other ppl singing and feel then jumping. It just killed our vibe. Price were 45 an hour (after 12) but we ended up paying 30 even though we stayed for 30 min. I complained but they said we still hav to pay 30 for 30min cuz their min. is 45$$$$. Hate this place and never gonna come back here ever again. read more

A centrally located space in Japantown that will provide you with a classic karaoke experience. I haven't been to a karaoke spot in San Francisco since moving up to the city. Upon arriving, however, the place already felt intensely familiar to me. In fact, I feel it's run by the exact same owner as the places I go to in South Bay. Prices are decent and the rooms are cheap. The space, like others I've been to, is not fancy. The rooms get the job done. Rooms line the hallway but there's little problem hearing sound from other groups. The TV is retro and music videos don't match the songs, but they have a good song selection of what you exactly need. If the prices were more expensive, I'm not so sure I would give this place a "4/5". Again, because this place is not fancy. When everything is considered though, I'm a fan. An overall decent place. 4/5. read more

It's a noraebang (Korean for karaoke spot). It's Korean owned and the people working the desk seemed nice. They have many different languages to sing in and the rooms seem clean (at least the one I was in). If there's any down side to this place, it's that it does not allow any alcohol whatsoever on its premises. Alcohol and karaoke go hand in hand--not sure why they don't serve/allow any. Maybe they got in trouble in the past for something alcohol related. I'd come back again. However, another cool karaoke spot down the street is Playground which does serve alcohol. read more