Gamba Karaoke

Debating between 3 and 4 star. This place is really old. Makes me think it was probably really awesome when it first opened back in the day. The furniture is a hodgepodge of mismatching, multi-generational items, some ripped leather sofas, a swivel desk chair, old wooden Japanese coffee table with wooden pieces detaching, multi bulb lamps with missing broken off lamp shades. It's quite the character. Seems like they have an extensive song library. On top of English & East Asian song books, I also saw a small Hindi song book. We picked the English karaoke machine and we could search up songs by artist or song title via a tablet. Our room was super stuffy and hot even with the wall fan on. Bottled water is $1 each. There's cold beverages and hot beverages. The other reviews are correct, this place wasn't designed for karaoke rooms, you can hear what people are singing outside of their rooms. Overall though, it has a messy, homey feel. Song selection does the job. Person at the front desk was super nice. I will probably be back, pricing seemed reasonable to me compared to other places I have been (granted they were in another state).

It has japanese and English machine. But I will highly recommend the Japanese machine cuz the room will be much better than the English machine. And there will be more song to be able to search up. Even if it's japanese machine, there are a lot of English song as well.
We were able to find a lot of anime songs, jpop new songs, and vocaloid song. For international language songs, we were able to find a lot of Chinese song, both in Mandarins and Cantonese, even Taiwanese was able to be found.

Gamba is one of my absolute favorite places, and I am so glad it survived the pandemic. If you want to sing to your hearts content in Japanese or English (among other language choices)… this is THE SPOT. It is a bit of a hole in the wall location after the decades of being here, but it still has the best machines for Japanese music in the Bay and the owner keeps this updated for all the new music popular in Japan.

Private karaoke rooms are the best way to sing your heart out in this “new normal”. This spot has a large selection of current hits and throwbacks. There are also large collections of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean songs. You do pay by person instead of by room, but the room was spacious and comfortable. Highly recommend!