Kor Karaoke

Had the BEST time at Idol Karaoke. Tucked away off skirts of downtown SJ this hidden gem is…read moresomewhere I'd return again and again. Customer service is top tier, I used their online platform to ask my question & got immediate responses. The establishment itself is very homey, literally feels like a remodeled home. The rooms are spacious & can fit parties small or large. I have no clue how we didn't hear anything outside of our space but once you close that door it's OVER. Utilizing an iPad for YouTube lookups is the best because you can find the perfect fit to your needs. BYOF (food and drinks) for a fee but well worth it. Can't wait to go back for some fun!

Prices were higher than advertised and the room itself was a little out of whack (broken overhead…read morelight, no working AC, etc.), but was an overall fun experience. There was at least a fan, which made it more bearable. Nice lady at the front!

9.9 km•Calabazas North, West San Jose

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Music Tunnel KTV Cafe

3.9(540 reviews)

My friends and I went here for my birthday. The staff are friendly and helpful. I had booked 2…read moreweeks in advance online and even though I showed up past the grace period (couldn't find parking) they were still able to honor our reservation. The room we got was clean and seemed soundproof. There are TONS of music options - Kpop, Jpop/Anime, Mandopop, Cantonese, and of course all the English hits. It seems whatever system they use for the Karaoke is frequently updated because they have brand new songs too. Food was tasty and service was fast and not too disruptive. They have to open the door to deliver the food but do it quickly. Pricing seems fair. Parking here is a pain and can be challenging.

As soon as you open the doors, it appears as if you walked into a boba spot that serves…read morenon-alcoholic drinks (boba) and popcorn chicken. If I recall, the same counter that takes your food/ drink orders also assigns the karoke rooms. The room we had as very nice, had a comfy couch and they even gave us 4 mics! Anyways, I definitely recommend y'all stop by and check them out when you're in the area. Parking is the challenge.

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Pure Karaoke

4.4(308 reviews)

23.3 km

Such a fun karaoke spot! I was in town for a photoshoot and we stopped by for some food. We ended…read moreup trying karaoke since this place was recommended, and I'm so glad we did! The sound system was really easy to use, and the service was super quick. Definitely had a great time and would come back again!

Tldr: Solid karaoke spot with nice rooms and helpful staff. The karaoke system is a little…read moredifficult. I called to make a VIP room reservation, and the staff member was helpful and patient in explaining the situation with the rooms (essentially that there were a few other large parties with reservations on that day, might need to switch rooms at some point). It was fine and I booked a room. When we arrived, the staff member found our reservation right away and wrote down the time that we checked in as our starting time. He was thorough in showing us how the karaoke system works, which was necessary because it's kind of confusing. Overall the customer service was great. We ended up using YouTube, but their account doesn't let you queue songs so you have to search each new song after the current one is done. It worked out fine but wasn't ideal because it adds time in between songs and you can't queue a song every time you think of one. Also, the touchscreen is mounted to the wall so you have to physically go to type the songs in. The room looked clean and they were upfront about a 15% service fee (though I disagree with the concept of having a fee -- just add extra to the base price so people know off the bat what the price will be instead of having to calculate it). You're allowed to bring food and non-alcoholic drinks. The sound system worked well. If you can adjust your standards in terms of UX on the karaoke system itself, this is a decent place.

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The Blue Lounge

4.2(63 reviews)

30.1 km

Neat little place. Super cheap drinks, great atmosphere, and most importantly: karaoke!…read more No BS, just drink, sing, and have fun! It's a little hole in the wall, but might be your best bet at a good time late at night with some brews, good company, and fun KJs. Checked around other areas but others looked sketchy. Decided to check this spot out and was pleasantly surprised.

Came here early on a Saturday night and the place was pretty empty, maybe like 10 people inside…read more(which almost doubled by midnight, but not quite). It's pretty much your typical dive bar, with an older crowd, perhaps a majority of regulars coming in and doing their thing on the mic, as they have karaoke on Saturday nights after 9pm. They only have one screen for the lyrics on the "dance floor" near the DJ. So if you're sitting at the bar, you're pretty much uninvolved in that part of the entertainment. In between singers/songs, they did play a lot of old school hip hop (ie. Regulate by Warren G, and I Got 5 on It by Luniz) with music videos playing on the two TV's at the bar. But they did mix it up a bit, playing fun hits such as Tom's Diner. Throughout the night, I was served three different lemon drops by three different bartenders (due to shift changes) who all made it differently, lol. The last guy was frank about not knowing how to make it though, and he had a good sense of humor too, so he made me laugh and I didn't mind the botched beverage. One thing to note, if you check in on Yelp, it says you get a free beer with any shot purchase... but they didn't honor that promo here (or at least that last guy didn't know how). The interior of this lounge is pretty small and includes a piano, booth seating, bar seating, simple blue and red lighting, dart boards, and pretty eccentric posters and decor on the walls, even behind the bar. I like the overall vibe here, it felt really homey, and chill.. great to just sit back and enjoy conversation with good company. I probably wouldn't come here on my own though, due to the variety of characters that come in. Also, if you're looking for a more lively atmosphere, this place is not for you. By the way, street parking was easy to find right out front on a weekend.

14.1 km•Roberts-Walnut Woods, King and Story, East San Jose

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Genting Karaoke

4.3(65 reviews)

Free parking

Free WiFi

I dropped in to visit some co workers and it was my first time here. This was a nice place. Very…read moremuch enjoyed our time here and I would consider coming back in the future. They offer drinks, im not sure about food but you can bring what you like. My co-worker dropped her phone in the back of the couch somehow and the worker was kind to hep retrieve it and take a group photo. Great service.

The place itself is nice but expensive. They told me upon arriving they add a 16% service fee &…read morewhen i went to pay they added a 10% tax on top of it. Just make sure to add that into your final costs ahead of time.

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EMA Karaoke & Bar

Customer service is number one, best customer service! Great experience, amazing karaoke rooms,…read moregood food, delicious drinks!!! Would recommend to anyone who wants to come to a karaoke bar or reserve a karaoke room!! I will definitely come back again

Thank you for being such a great host Haesoo! We will be here next time for sure. Try the kimchi…read morefried rice :) They have latest K-pop songs.

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7 Bamboo

3.8(485 reviews)

13.9 km•Downtown

I've been to 7 bamboo dozens of times throughout the years. It's the closest I've even been to…read moreworld peace. You have people of every race, gender, creed, etc just trying to belt their lungs out on the stage. It's where everyone can be the weirdest version of themselves and no one cares. I do miss the days when rapper Johnny and the guy that brought his own bongos would be out, but I'm sure there will be a new generation of those folks soon. The bartenders are mostly ok but the drinks are kind of inconsistent (a friend and I ordered the same drink and they were totally different). They do check id but it's annoying because I'm clearly a much older demographic lol. They don't serve food (I know they did at one point in time, but idk why they don't anymore).

It's a great place to have a fun place to be silly in costume and wigs, and sing your heart out…read morewith lots of encouragement from the crowd. Our group of 6 arrived at 8PM to get on the virtual queue early. Wait was about 30-45 min even that early in the night. There were many regulars there ready to sing already. We were fine with waiting and enjoyed a round of drinks. Getting a table at that time was easy but within a couple hours, the place was crowded. The bartender was attentive even as more people came in. She got us our drink orders pretty fast. Drinks were ok, but we were there for karaoke not a cocktail experience.

7.3 km•West San Jose, Hathaway

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Focus Karaoke & Cafe

3.9(135 reviews)

The staff was friendly, the room was clean and plenty of space for our party. I love the em fact…read morethat you can bring your own food and drinks into the space. I would recommend going for a couple hours! Time well spent!

To get the positive notes out of the way, there were no issues with customer service, the room was…read moreclean, and the sound system worked well. If you made a reservation for like 7 p.m. and you check in at 7:10, they will start the clock at 7:10 (this is good -- I've been to places that would start the clock at 7). Other than that, I was underwhelmed by the karaoke system. First, the system tablet is mounted on a wall in a corner of the room, so you have to walk over to search. A tablet that can be handed around would offer a better experience. Their karaoke system is confusing. I tried searching "Ariana" (Ariana Grande) and nothing turned up, but I was able to find her eventually under one of the lists of artists (and this issue repeated for multiple artists). We all struggled to find songs. If you want to sing Japanese songs, you need to search it in Japanese as the system is case-specific and will not turn up searches using English romanization. This would have been fine for us in theory since almost everyone in our group knew Japanese, but the same aforementioned issues with searching were still present regardless of language. Someone in our group had experienced this system before and helped us navigate it, but I don't think a good karaoke system should be so user-unfriendly. There's a QR code you can scan to browse the system on your phone, but there's a mismatch between songs available through the QR code link and what the system actually has, so some songs that we added through the link actually did not exist in the system. It's unfortunately that the song search was so bad, because the system did have a large Japanese song selection, including recent hits. They have YouTube, but unlike other karaoke places with YouTube there's no way to queue songs, so you have to wait until a song is done to search and play a new song. Because of lack of ability to queue, we resigned ourselves to using the funky system since that could at least accommodate queuing. We were charged a 15% service fee in addition to the room fee and tax. I have seen past reviews report different percentage rates for the service fee, so I wasn't sure what to expect. They write down the service fee percentage on a slip of paper when checking you in, so it seems the percentage might not be standardized. Right before filling out the slip, the person at the front asked if we would be consuming food in the room, and we said no, but we did have bags of takeout leftovers that we weren't going to eat while in the room. I think you can have a good experience here if you are OK with spending a lot of time dealing with the system.

73.7 km•Japantown, Lower Pacific Heights

Song selection screen + tv screen

Birthday deco @focus karaoke，Call us for reservation！

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K-BOX Karaoke

4.1(129 reviews)

Celebrated a bachelorette with my friends, service was great, most have a reservation for faster…read moreservice. We did! Also room was clean, not so dark it was such a great time, we ordered food and drinks, it was good. Even got some dessert. We were about 9 to one room volume level was great as well staff was extremely attentive

Cool spot with options of room size and relative decent prices. The rooms were cute, and set up was…read morenice. The options of international music was cool. Beer and alcohol was cheap and little sweet having ordering Is cool. The bad: the song system was incredibly difficult to navigate. Song choices were fairly limited in my opinion. Some artist that are wildly popular, you couldn't find the song on their system, but other artist that were a lot less popular, they'd have everything including covers of songs. I had a lot better luck finding songs I liked at other places for sure.

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Dayna N.

17 years ago

Kor Karaoke (aka Bruce) was the DJ / Karaoke genius at my friends 30th birthday party and I have to admit, I was blown away by the professionalism. He had 2 mics set up with the TV screen displaying the words and song books that had to have thousands of songs on it to choose from. His equipment was unreal and it was like being at a real Karaoke bar. Her backyard was instantly turned into a raging party where everyone (to my surprise) got up and sang and rocked out. Bruce was great and even stayed past his time so we could keep the party going. I would definitely recommend and hire him myself for another occasion. His services really did make the night! read more

lisa h.

15 years ago

They got great song selection, nice equipments and just an overall good vibe. Bruce is always pleasant and professional with his customers. If you like karaoke and you like to party, Bruce is definitely your man read more

Gloria H.

14 years ago

These guys make Karaoke super fun, the way it's supposed to be. Very great staff here and they know their stuff. I recently wen tot a wedding and was compelled to write a great review for these guys. read more

Silvia B.

11 years ago

This is one place where I can sing Run To You and feel like I'm Whitney Houston on stage! I'm planning to have my sister's birthday party here this year. Had a blast! read more

Jeanne N.

11 years ago

They totally deserve a 5 star. Best KJ in the whole of northern california. I now don't ever miss a wednesday night. Bruce is the best!! Yaaaayyyayyyy read more

cindy l.

16 years ago

I had a great time there last weekend! The atmosphere was fun and inviting. A great place for a shy girl like me!

Emily H.

15 years ago

Great selection of music! Great KJ and bartender! This place is tops, love it! Can't say enough good things. :)

Andrew W.

15 years ago

good job Kor Karaoke!! like the collection of great equipment and a huge selection of music.

Carmen Q.

16 years ago

Bruce is off the hook. His selection is enormous. Love how has almost everything.

Jenna C.

15 years ago

One word: WEDNESDAY.

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