Astro Karaoke

We’ve been here a handful of times and have always had fun. The place is fun if you’re buzzed. You can sing karaōke in front of a crowd for 1.50 a song if a private room is not your thing.
The food is good and you can order from Azabu next door.
The reason I’m only giving it two stars is
1. The service– we sat at the bar on our most recent trip and got very little attention. Our order of wings came out 20 minutes after we ordered it and spoke to several bartenders. Not only that, but we saw our order come out and be delivered to a karaōke room only to come back and sit at the bar for a few minutes before getting delivered to us.
2. The bartender tried to pull a fast one on us– we asked for the driest sake they had on the menu. She proceeded to poor an inferior/​sweeter sake into a flask and try to serve it to us. When I asked us what she had poured, she confirmed that it was what we had asked for. It wasn’t until I asked to see the bottle did she admit that they were out of what we asked for. Not cool.

I love this place! It’s a Japanese bar so you can’t come here thinking you can order a gin and tonic but they do have a wide variety of Japanese cocktails. They have three beers on draft: Kirin, Asahi, and Sapporo.
This place also serves food. The pizza is pretty good but I think my favorites are the fried chicken wings and fried calamari. Both are served with a wedge of lemon and it’s really tasty and perfect with beer/​drinks.
Servers here are always super friendly and they’re just fun people.
This place also has karaōke rooms which you can reserve for parties. Also, if you order at least $ 5 of drinks per person per hour, the room charges are free! There are sometimes people also singing at the bar area.
There are two astro bars. This one is serving up ramen option while the other has sushi. This location is also bigger than the other. More karaōke rooms and bigger bar area.
Overall, this place is a good place to wind down after a day of work and grab and beer and a quick snack. It can get pretty packed on weekends.

Went last night for my birthday and it wasn’t busy at all. Started with a group of 8 which was $ 5/​hr. Then at 12am, I had 5 more people surprise me. Within this time period we ordered 4 pitchers of beer, 10 shots, then a bottle. Total came to about $ 153 (gratituity included) which was reasonable. The more alcohol you buy, your hourly rate for the room decreases. Great service for such a large group, the bartender single handedly took care of us even though we were rowdy. Definitely would be back. The karaōke had a lot of selections but didn’t really understand the buttons because it was in a different language but it’s kind of common sense. ROOM has AC too!

I went there last night with my best friend and the guy im seeing cause we wanted to belt a couple tunes out. Not sure what i was expecting, but i was mildly surprised. It wasnt dingy– the ambiance was actually quite nice. Five dollars an hour for a room to karaōke in was great, but i wasnt into the fact that that only applied if you didnt leave the room since im a smoker. Drinks were reasonably priced as well as the food. The smoked salmon on the smoked salmon salad didnt taste the best. The device used was easy to use, but they didnt explain how to skip somgs and it took us a while to figure out how to do it. The song selection was also limited compared to other karaōke bars ive been to.

Great! Paid $ 5/​hour per person for private room

Awesome price on karaōke since drinks help to cover the price for the room. I am going to be spending at least the $ 5 per person per hour, so karaōke is essentially free for me.
Beer here is pretty limited to Sapporo, Kirin, Asahi and Blue moon, but they have a decent amount of sake to choose from. They also have some good cocktails that are pretty tasty. The snacks are great too.
Came back twice already, and I am pretty sure I will be a regular here.

I love it here! Definitely a place to go when you wanna sing, drink and have fun time with your friends. Weekends get pretty crowded so you’ll need to make a reservation if you want the private rooms. The price is cheap comparing to other karaōke places. It’s $ 5/​hr/​person for the room but if you order drinks, the drink charge will be deducted from the room charge. So it’s even cheaper! So it’s better to order drinks if you’re singing in the rooms.
They don’t have hard liquor but they carry sake, Shochu, sweet cocktails and a good selection of beer. Their food was decent as well.
I see some people play darts since they have three darts machines. You can make friends here easily since the customers as well as the waitresses and waiters seem to know each other well!
I highly recommend this place!

Read before you go. Don’t attend with large groups. We had a semi large gathering here (about 20, 25 people) and the staff was not only not attentive to our needs but seemed to dislike that our group was actually having fun. After spending nearly a thousand dollars here, yeah a thousand dollars, they wanted to charge us for singing karaōke in the main area!!! (which was about 90% populated by us). Then to top it off while singing Bohemian Rhapsody (clearly a cloud favorite) they turned off our microphones volume presumably because we were being too loud and rowdy which was extremely rude and showed how little regard this establishment has for its customers. After mentioning it they actually tuned our microphones on to such a little amount that it was insulting and they absolutely lost my respect not only for this incident but for how we were treated the whole time. It seemed as thought we were an inconvenience to them from the moment we walked in even though we were a large group and probably spent about 80% of what they made tonight. This probably isn’t the case for small groups but the way the staff conducted themselves to our group and the disrespect they showed made me create a Unilocal account to keep them accountable so so enter at your own risk. If your service is poor please write a negative review so others can avoid being over charged and rudely serviced.
DO NOT GO IF YOU ARE NOT ASIAN THEY ARE RACIST!!!

Make sure to go here on a weekday as theyre always packed on weekends! $ 5 per person for an hr to get a private room. You can actually get a drink with that $ 5 and the room is yours!!! they have big room and nice sound system. all of their songs are up to date. they even have foreign songs! so cool! I love Winona! She is amazing and i love seeing her every time i come here!

Very interesting Karaōke place. A definite mix of «East and West» As you come into the place a wall of darts is on one side, a few tables in the middle, and a bar. The back of the bar also has Karaōke rooms for rent, just like in Asia but chibi sized! However if you want you can sing in the main dining area, or at the bar, even while playing darts (not recommended! LoL !!) The bar has a great selection of Sochu (distilled spirits) from Japan, and there is also quite a few sakes as well. The beer menu is very average… no craft pours or hard liquor here. The bar food is again a mix of very Japanese… Atarime, Ika Geso, Negiyaki, takoyaki… to very «American» cheese plate, pizza, nuts, french fries, and chicken wings. The food was very good, with a twist of Japanese flavorings throughout all the «American» fare. The prices for the drinks were very reasonable and the pours heavy! This is not your fancy restaurant or Hollywood chic bar. The place is more of a local hangout. Most of the patrons were Japanese, and getting to the Japanese… its an interesting mix of JA’s (Japanese 3^rd generation English only speaking) to FOB (fresh off the boat) looking straight out of a Shinjuku bar. The karaōke was a mix of Japanese and English songs with a few «bad renditions» cross cultured singing from each group! This is a cool local bar with great drinks and «chill» atmosphere. Its also a great place to sing Japanese songs if your into that, and eat some Japanese bar food that I don’t see unless I’m in a restaurant. It does get crowded on the weekends, but its a one of a kind!

Came here on a weekend and the place was bumping. We wanted a private booth and were able to get one right away. The karaōke is free, as long as you order more than $ 5 in drinks per person/​hour. Not a problem for my thirsty friends and I.
The song selections appear to differ between the main room and the booths. Our digital controller ran out of batteries, but the staff was good about replacing it. The rooms have the summon button, which is always a big plus in my book. Someone came within one minute of it being pressed every time, despite how packed the front room was. We had a great time and stayed until the place closed down.

I love it here! Their song selection is HUDGE ranging from current to old English, Japanese, Korean, and even Tagalog songs!
Their rooms also range from big to small (depending on your group obviously), overall its cheap but the food isn’t.
You can bring your own food though!
Yeah I’ll go back. I mean, I’ve been there twice already.

If you want a large room on a weekend, you should definitely make a reservation. I made the last one a week in advance and they had limited openings. I have been to Astro a few times and each time they seem to be busier! Note that everything is electronic here, so you don’t get any books. They display wasn’t fully charged so we had to leave it plugged in which was kind of annoying when we wanted to pass it around our table of 10. Song selection is limited and they have more of the current pop songs rather than older hits. I think Max’s has tons more songs with different versions of a song. But Astro is way cleaner and more of a karaōke/​fun atmosphere.
Prices are fair and if you buy a drink you get the $ 5 off the first hour. So pretty much buy a drink, lol. We made a two hour reservation since that was the only slot they had on a Saturday night and you better believe they gave us our bill right on time and tried to rush us out. I guess they are that busy!
$ 5/​hr per person.

They have a nice karaōke rooms, but should reserve if you are going
on weekends.
Karaōke is free if you order drinks that costs more than $ 5 per hour.
Song listings are up date too.

This place is pretty awesome! Went here to celebrate my dad’s birthday (he loves karaōke-​ing), and my whole family and I enjoyed our time here!
Nice little rooms, and they have a button available for assistance whenever needed.
Astro has their own food menu, but you can also order food from the restaurant, Azabu, which is next door.
That’s pretty much what we did.
Songs are very easy to find, and the staff was very attentive and helpful.
Very cheap prices to go and sing your ass off!

I was introduced to this bar by my friend jun and so far I’ve been here twice.
I got to say I really enjoy this place. The karaōke rooms are great and have a great sound system as well as selection in music.
And also the service is awesome! They staff is very accommodating and do their utmost to make you feel welcome.
The staff is very honest also.
Jus good vibes all around.
I’ll be back.

After eatting dinner at Azabu next door and seeing that this place was connected we decided to check it out. For those local South Bay people that know this area this place is in the corner of the plaza the one where Pizza Hut and the loft are and this place back in the days was Radio Shack. This place is not bad it was $ 5 w/​drink an hour for the room so it’s good if you have a group of people. I haven’t been karaōke in a long time so i don’t know what’s all good or not i remember back in the day you would have to look in a book write down the code of the song you want to sing lol. So being all high tech and stuff they had a little wireless box where you can search for artists and songs they have and put them in the cue and if you want you can cancel it anyways it was a fun place. Some of the Unilocalers can sing lol. Anyways it’s a cool place to hang out and have some karaōke fun lol.

Shhh… I have a secret!
However because you’ve graciously taken the time to read my review, I’m going to share with you my secret (insert: *wink, wink ;) here).
Here it goes… drumroll please… my big secret is I love to sing!
Now I’m far from being a good singer (insert: haha haha: P here), but I do love me some good ol’ karaōke!
After enjoying a good dinner with some fellow Unilocalers at adjacent Azabu (
), I was really excited when we decided to head over to Astro.
Astro is a classic Karaōke bar with small rooms with karaōke flat TV screens. The room is $ 5 per person. However during happy hour (5−9pm), for any food/​beverage order that exceeds over $ 5, one person may get an hour free of karaōke. For regular hours (9pm to closing), it is for any beverage order that exceeds $ 5, one person will get an hour free of karaōke.
They have a cute electronic box where you pick the songs. We did have to ask the waitress how to use it because there are various Japanese buttons. Once we got a hang of how to use it however, it was pretty easy. The song selection is pretty extensive. Our party’s song choices that night ranged from Spice Girls to Lionel Richie to Corrine Bailey Ray. Lol! I had a lot of fun here singing along with my friends Jamie A, Pablo, Jennifer N., Josephine A., Craig Y. and Antho L.
No more to just singing in the shower for this Unilocal girl, the concert stage is at Astro ;). My «concert» opened up with «Girls Just Wanna Have Fun» followed by «Call Me Maybe.» Yup, my secret of singing is no longer a secret ;). I was a little shy for this karaōke session though so I will be back for concert #2…soon ;) This place rocks!

We were in the area and the group I was with had NEVER been to a karaōke place where you can rent your own room. We went during the day time.
WORST. EXPERIENCE. EVER.
It looked like the place was trashed from the night before and whomever closed didn’t want to clean it up so we had to wait for her to clean up the room before we could be seated — and she cleaned up ALL the rooms, then seated us, instead of cleaning 1 room and seating us in there.
The buttons on the machine were all in Japanese and when we asked how to use it — she got really annoyed. I’m apparently the wrong asian. Sorry, I can’t use google translate to figure out which button did what.
The english songs all had cheesy videos (not the artist’s music videos) which is to be expected so that wasn’t so bad. There is NO song list — you just have to punch in the artist or song title — that’s it. They have a very good selection of Japanese, not so much in Chinese or Korean =(
The kitchen was closed (it was 2pm) so we had to figure out lunch on our own. We could bring food in but not drinks. They didn’t offer free refills on sodas.
I think she knew that we were annoyed with her attitude b/​c she became a little nicer by the time we left.
This place needs better customer service training and to staff at least 1 person in the kitchen. Also whomever closes should probably clean up b/​c it’s nasty seeing stacks of cups/​mugs and old food just sitting on the tables. This place is super affordable and priced fairly. If the service went up then I’d think this place would do well.

I guess this makes this the first «meaningful» review.
I honestly really enjoy myself here. I went to the other location a couple times, but when I did, it was so crowded it was hard to enjoy myself.
I got here around 9:30pm on a Saturday night and it wasn’t quite dead, but it wasn’t buttcheek-​to-​buttcheek crowded lol
The servers/​bartenders there were really nice and friendly. It was our first time at this location and they explained the differences in their menus. They have a specially created shoyu ramen that I really want to try next time (I came here after a mediocre dinner that filled me up… what a waste of space lol). Apparently the guy who opened the place spent much time and effort on the broth of that shoyu ramen and that broth is only available at this particular Astro. Anything that has that much effort and care put into it is worth trying at least once! I also want to try the chashu bowl next time. According to the guy working there, it kind of reminds him of a pork adobo lol.
There’s a lot of room at the bar and at the lounge-​y area. There are 5 rooms, which is a 2 room improvement from the other location. Just a tip and point of reference, if you want to use a room, you should call ahead and make a reservation! Just passing on their advice to us!
I’m not a beer-​guzzler, so I ordered a white peach cocktail. The cocktails are made with shochu (aka soju). Definitely want to try the Calpico and lychee ones next time too! It was really good and sweet, but at the same time, still potent enough (for a lightweight like me lol). They have Asahi black and Sapporo on draught. We ordered some takoyaki to much on. It wasn’t bad. Not the best takoyaki I’ve had, but definitely perfect to munch on!
If you sit in the open mic area (as opposed to the private rooms), you can use their touch-​screen devices (with a stylus) to search for your song. Unfortunately, you can’t make your song reservation on the machine at this location. But you can just write down the song number and pass it to one of the servers and they will input it for you. Song selection includes Korean, English, Japanese, and apparently some Filipino songs. They’re not the most updated, but they have all the classics. It’s $ 1 per song in the open mic area. The private rooms are $ 5 per person.
I’ll definitely be back here for more. It’s just such a fun environment. People cheer for each other at the end of the song, regardless of your degree of tone-​deafness haha
Note: The later it gets, the drunker the customers get, and the funnier their performances get.