Where to sing Ayu Karaoke in Toronto *GTA)

mimika · #1 23rd July 2008, 03:36 PM

All these years I have been an Ayu fan living in Canada, I have been in great search of Karaoke where they have Ayu songs. I just want to share my experience here..the good and the bad...so for those living in Toronto, or GTA, or anywhere close..you know where to go!

1) Twister Karaoke (Yonge and Finch)

This probably has the largest collection of Ayu songs. In fact, they have the largest collection of Japanese karaoke songs.

The good: large collection
The bad: pretty expensive as compared to other karaoke in Markham and Richmond Hill. Although they have a large number of ayu songs, most of them (95%) are weird PV's...ie they are not real ayu PV's..but they are fake with some random woman walkin down the street. Which also means that the music is not arranged as in the original version. Sometimes you can have difference songs with the same random video. Also the environment isn't very clean. The coach in the room are dirty and torn.

2) Take one (Woodbine & highway 7)

This is a very popular karaoke place. Good price but not that many ayu songs

The good: good price. Also ALL ayu songs they have are original video. They have at least appears, M, Daybreak, Fly high, Jewel..off my mind
The bad: not as many Ayu songs as Twister

3) Echo

The good: very cheap. go for happy hours which is from 1pm till like 9pm for only $8 which includes 2 non-alcoholic drink....you can sing till you lost your voice. All original PV's..appears, M, Daybreak, Fly high, Jewel, audience (live) off my mind
The bad: also limited ayu songs.

4) Ten23 (Woodbine and Steeles)

The good: all original PV, Part of me available
The bad: very limited number of Ayu songs, and I do mean very limited

I know there are more..but that's it for now..I will update it later

ayujarl · #2 23rd July 2008, 06:34 PM

LOL. thx for the post!!!
I've sung part of Me @ Ten23 recently, M @ Take One last year I believe.
Twister has tons of JPOP and KPOP. been there many years before. the Taiwan noodles resto next to Twister used to be very neat/yummy.

I hope Ten23, RQ (Highway 7th/Leslie) will add more JPOP

I go there once in a while

maikaru · #3 23rd July 2008, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by mimika

All these years I have been an Ayu fan living in Canada, I have been in great search of Karaoke where they have Ayu songs. I just want to share my experience here..the good and the bad...so for those living in Toronto, or GTA, or anywhere close..you know where to go!

1) Twister Karaoke (Yonge and Finch)

This probably has the largest collection of Ayu songs. In fact, they have the largest collection of Japanese karaoke songs.

The good: large collection
The bad: pretty expensive as compared to other karaoke in Markham and Richmond Hill. Although they have a large number of ayu songs, most of them (95%) are weird PV's...ie they are not real ayu PV's..but they are fake with some random woman walkin down the street. Which also means that the music is not arranged as in the original version. Sometimes you can have difference songs with the same random video. Also the environment isn't very clean. The coach in the room are dirty and torn.

2) Take one (Woodbine & highway 7)

This is a very popular karaoke place. Good price but not that many ayu songs

The good: good price. Also ALL ayu songs they have are original video. They have at least appears, M, Daybreak, Fly high, Jewel..off my mind
The bad: not as many Ayu songs as Twister

3) Echo

The good: very cheap. go for happy hours which is from 1pm till like 9pm for only $8 which includes 2 non-alcoholic drink....you can sing till you lost your voice. All original PV's..appears, M, Daybreak, Fly high, Jewel, audience (live) off my mind
The bad: also limited ayu songs.

4) Ten23 (Woodbine and Steeles)

The good: all original PV, Part of me available
The bad: very limited number of Ayu songs, and I do mean very limited

I know there are more..but that's it for now..I will update it later

Maybe you could post a list of all the ayu songs you remember from the ones you can remember?~
Sorry to be such a bother... but Im gonna to look for the ones with the most ayu songs me and my brother love!!!~
I also wanna to experience true japanese karaoke~~!! I miss those things~~

also, can you tell if they are full instrumental,
Or do they have vocals... like the one in pacific mall?~
Or at least the songs I sung in pacific mall had those kinds of surpressed vocals... =\

kawaii_kisses · #4 24th July 2008, 04:38 AM

I usually go to karaoke around the yonge and finch area~ I've been to twister and a couple of other ones around that area (one called shout karaoke i think..it has a giant chicken sign lol). I prefer the korean karaoke places over the chinese ones because they have more japanese and english songs while most of the chinese places don't have much selection outside of chinese songs. On the other hand, chinese karaoke places are way cheaper but my friends never go for more than 3 hours anyways lol.

Oh well, I can't even read japanese so I can't even sing ayu songs anyways lol~

minna · #5 25th July 2008, 02:52 PM

thanks a lot for this
that is really appreciated

I don't live in Toronto but if I go again, I will definitly look for those karaoke

Suteisi · #6 25th July 2008, 03:38 PM

Ahh that's awesome! I never thought of looking for Karaokes in Toronto!

I'll definitely have to take a look when I go next time x3

I assume the lyrics are in romaji?

maikaru · #7 26th July 2008, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Neffiline

Ahh that's awesome! I never thought of looking for Karaokes in Toronto!

I'll definitely have to take a look when I go next time x3

I assume the lyrics are in romaji?

Noo~~ usually they are in hiragana, katakana, and kanji~~ =]

hc253218 · #8 27th July 2008, 04:31 PM

haha nice more fans in the gta i havent met that much so im always greatful to hear of some

Suteisi · #9 29th July 2008, 01:43 PM

^Well then I'll have to forget about that xD

Thanks!

mimika · #10 29th July 2008, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Neffiline

Ahh that's awesome! I never thought of looking for Karaokes in Toronto!

I'll definitely have to take a look when I go next time x3

I assume the lyrics are in romaji?

some of them have romaji...but most of them is hiragana or kanji

M for sure has romaji....

other jpop songs I have sing includes BoA (has romaji), Amuro Namie, Nakashima Mika, Hikki in Chinese Karaoke..if you go to Korean Karaoke they have more jpop singers