Live house
A live house is a Japanese live music club – a music venue featuring live music. The term is a Japanese coinage and is mainly used in East Asia. It most frequently refers to smaller venues, which may double as bars, especially featuring rock, jazz, blues, and folk music.History
The oldest live house is in Kyoto, founded in 1973 in an old sake warehouse. Soon afterwards, the idea spread through Japan. In recent years, similar establishments started to appear in big cities in South Korea, China and many of them are also locally called "live houses."
