Jaunted

Karaoke Room Crashing and More

3/08/2007 at 9:30 AM
Tags: Blogs, Karaoke, Culture (all tags)

We keep an eye on the gals at Japan Nomads, who tend to come up with a combination of the downright obvious (Japanese love baseball) and the ah-we-never-knew-that-about-Japan moments. Last time we checked in they reminded us of those weird noises on Japanese toilets, and recently they've been blogging about weird noises at railway stations, too:

Each train station has a different melody for the arrival of the train, some play "Mary had a little lamb", while others play "old MacDonald had a farm". On top of these songs, most trains stations play piercing bird calls from their speakers every few hours.

But if you want to sing the songs, not just listen to them, then of course you've got to head for your karaoke room. Or maybe somebody else's:

One of the greatest experiences to try is room crashing - sneaking past the staff and into another karaoke room to see if they'd like you to join them for a rollicking number. The experience can be a lot of fun with drunken Japanese singers excited to practice their English with the foreign visitor. Be warned however, the karaoke staff will not look fondly on this interruption and will scold you back to your room.

Funny how the Japanese can be so polite and then so strict all at once.

[Photo: styrka]

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