Maru Studio

We came for a bachelorette party and only planned on staying for an hour or two, but it turned out to be one of the funnest nights ever! We stayed over 4 hours. JD kept the beers flowing and was extremely kind and helpful. He even brought us some complimentary popcorn and fruit! The song selection was great and we had a BLAST! The room got really warm, but it’s a small price to pay for an awesome time. I would recommend Maru Studio to anyone looking for an affordable, awesome time in Indy. The locals in our group will definitely be back, and I would probably take a trip to Indy just for karaōke night at Maru. Two thumbs way up! Love, love, love!

Open late, good selection of songs, and only $ 25 an hour to rent the room. Many of the songs on today’s chart are there, as well as Indonesian, Chinese, Korean, Tagalog too. Definitely will go back again when I want to sing karaōke. Just note that if it is during business hours and the front door is locked, someone will let you in if you ring the bell.

Spent Friday night at Maru Studio singing our hearts out. JD was running the desk and was super helpful. Made our reservation by phone, showed us how the system worked, and brought cold drinks quickly. Also offered to give us 30 minutes free.
The setup is essentially a u-​shaped booth with two corded mics and handheld controllers to choose your songs. Songs are all from 2005 or before, with some old and new tunes. A few things were disappointing (Rollin on the River wasn’t the Tina version… fail) but all in all we had a blast and found some really great music. The technology is a little outdated and the rooms are far from soundproof, but once you get your songs going it’s more about having a good time with friends. We worked out a lot of emotion on those mics! For $ 25 an hour, it’s actually a really cheap night out with friend. Apparently if you call ahead you can order pizza or bring snacks but not drinks. Domestic beers are around $ 3 (no craft beer, unfortunately) and iced tea and water is also available. It does get very hot in these rooms so wear layers. We spent about two hours (4 people). Will definitely be back!

I sometimes travel off to a special place where I am a pop star. Thanks to Maru Studio, I can do this outside of the confines of my car! I love Maru Studio!
Any fan of karaōke will have a blast here. It’s $ 25/​hr to rent a room and you can accommodate quite a few people into one room. Then the owner gives you a quick run through of how to use the remote (that is in Korean!) and leaves you to be. We tend to spend about two hours there whenever we go, but if you had a group of ten it’s a steal for a night of fun. There is a drink menu, with my favorite Korean sake on it, and some small tidbits of food to eat. I would suggest eating before going though, because the menu is slim.

This place is a lot of fun! You can rent a private room for you and your friends to sing karaōke. We went with a group of 8 and were given the smallest room. It held us well but the table around the couch was so big that you couldn’t get out from behind the table to stand up and sing. So we just passed the mic around. We did have trouble with our microphones and had to have them switched out but the gentleman working there was very accommodating and nice. Downside is the room was very hot! Stifling almost. We were allowed to open the door for the first hour because no other customers were there but we eventually had to close it. The selection of English songs is pretty big but it’s mostly earlier stuff. Id say the most recent songs are from the mid 2000s. So a bit of a bummer that the songs aren’t current. However you can bring in your own karaōke CDs! At the end of the night we asked the guy working at the bar to sing a song for us which he obliged happily and had a wonderful voice! All and all the night was a blast and I look forward to going back.

First, let me say I am a huge kpop fan. Also let me say this is the 2^nd noraebang I’ve been to other than one in Orlando, also my second time at one.
Since we moved to Indianapolis I’m thrilled to live in a town with a noraebang! My husband & I decided to check it out last night & were there 2.5 hours XD the lady only charged us for 2 thank goodness. It’s funny, we think we can fake our way through kpop songs until we get there & it’s a midi version that doesn’t sound like the song at all. The song we did best on was m-​flo Miss You since we both know it pretty well still. After that we faked best Block B’s Freeze, B1A4’s OK, hubby did Sechskies Come Back, then I rocked Miss A’s Love Alone, and we both did some Big Bang and more. The lady there was either amused or found it interesting that we were singing Korean songs mostly. I’m sure the group of Korean dudes at the bar totally heard us and we sounded terrible. I have a plan for us to go and I’ll buy a drink at the bar so we can look through the song book and talk to the lady.

I had my birthday party here in June. It was on a night where Indy was battered by an insane thunderstorm, and when we got to Maru, we found out that the power was partially out so there were 2 critical things that were not going to be available. 1 was air conditioning, 2 was the credit card machine. So I was in a panic trying to call and text everyone to let them know it was cash only. There was also only one guy working and I am not sure he realized how many people were coming to my party, even though I had told him that there was going to be like 25 people there. So service was slow. HOWEVER, even with those major snafus, we still had an amazing evening.
Maru is a Korean style Karaōke parlor — aka Noraebang and having recently visited Seoul, I can vouch that it’s authentic. You can rent a small room for up to 10 people or a large room for up to 20 by the hour. It’s private and you can get as loud and obnoxious as you want — the rooms are soundproof so when the door is closed, no one can hear your paying homage to «Total Eclipse of the Heart.»
The rooms are smoke free, but you are able to smoke in the lobby area if you so desire.
We were able to order Korean food from Bando, and were served in our private room, and it was delicious. They also serve beer and wine and soju — and once everybody was sufficiently sauced, the fact it was hotter than hell in there didn’t matter so much. Everyone had so much fun belting out the tunes! You get a quick tutorial on how to use the karaōke remote — it’s all in Korean so that was helpful. The owner also opened up a second room for us on the house, and gave us a great discount on the room rental for the inconveniences, and I appreciated that.
I am looking forward to a return trip where hopefully the climate is under control and the credit card machine is operating so I can up my review to 4 stars.
This is a fun experience, and I recommend it highly!

I love this place to go karaōke! I always order squid sauté cuz I love yummi and spicy food. Only thing is I wish they had more recent hits to sing though.

I did not patronize this business, but I did visit in order to look around and ask questions. So I’m going to give them a neutral 3 stars.
This is mainly a private Karaōke place where you rent the Karaōke room and equipment by the hour for your group. You don’t have to order food if you don’t want to.
They have several smaller sized rooms for 8 to 12 people, and a couple big rooms for up to 40 people.
Each room comes with it’s own Karaōke equipment, player, speakers, TV, mikes, etc, and tons of their standard Asian (Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean) karaōke music. You can take in your own karaōke discs.
They have a limited menu (that includes sushi) of mainly appetizer kind of stuff, but you could make a dinner or party out of it. I forget the prices, so call and check. They are open really late, like 1:00 am, and something like 2 or 3 am on the weekends.
They also have a very small dining area and bar up front with a TV.
If I understood correctly, all the food that they serve comes from the Bando restaurant just a couple doors down, so for a small party you could theoretically get anything on Bando’s menu.
Make sure you call ahead of time and check hours and availability before telling your friends to meet you there. And if you are going to get the large room, or order a lot of food, call at least a day in advance.
Another option for karaōke with Korean food is at Mama’s House, further up (NE) on Pendleton Pike. They have one large side room with karaōke equipment, (with all the standard Korean grills at each table) and it’s use is free with a minimum size group if everyone orders dinner. But also be sure to call and reserve at least a day in advance.