They usually have some good deals when it comes to free time and all you can drink services. If you want to go someplace cheap and get some free drinks while you`re at it, I would recommend you to go to either カラオケの鉄人 (karaoke no tetsujin) or 歌広場 (utahiroba). Often you have to order one drink that is around 400 yen (4 dollars), but at some places you get an all you can drink course included for about the same price so it really depends. The prices are usually per half an hour per person, not per room!! The prices are higher in rush hours, weekdays after 19:00-20:00 and all weekend. They do have good facilities and a lot of songs to choose from though. I usually find that the chain store with the blue banner that reads カラオケ館 and the one with the red banner that reads "Big Echo" are two of the most common but also expensive. Beware though, the prices of hiring a karaoke box differ extremely according to which chain store you go.
Where should I go? As I just said, you can go almost anywhere in the busier centers in Tokyo and you can find a karaoke box chain store. While these bars are nowadays actually pretty hard to find, places where you can enjoy karaoke privately with friends or even bu yourself in so called "karaoke boxes" have become much more common and you can find one of these chain stores on almost any street corner. If you would like to sing with strangers in a bar like setting, you can go to any bar that has a sign カラオケ "karaoke" written on it. And not only because of this, I strongly recommend anyone who is planning to visit Japan to enter one of the numerous karaoke boxes and sing their hearts out!!! The amazing thing about karaoke in Japan is, that you can basically choose who you want your audience to be. Karaoke? Karaoke! Just by the word itself one can figure out that this phenomenon must in some way have something to do with Japan.
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