Kota Tua and Glodok on foot
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- Jakarta History Museum
- Fatahillah Square
- Toko Merah
- Sion Church
- Pasar Glodok
- Jin De Yuan Temple
- Pantjoran Tea House
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7 stops · 3 h · on foot · museums closed Mondays · 7 stops
7 stops · 3 h · on foot and TransJakarta · 7 stops
7 stops · half a day · MRT Line M · fare Rp 4,000–14,000 · 7 stops
6 stops · morning to midnight · by Grab or taxi · 6 stops
6 stops · full day · by car or Grab · Monday closures · 6 stops
Monumen Nasional · Gambir
The 132 m obelisk topped with a gold flame: museum below, observation deck up top, 80 hectares of park around it.
Tip: Closed Mondays. To go up you need a JakCard transit card: the turnstile takes no cash, and the daily summit quota sells out by mid-afternoon.
🚇 TransJakarta · Gambir · 5 min walk
Featured in: Dinas Kebudayaan DKI Jakarta
Show on mapMasjid Istiqlal · Pasar Baru
Southeast Asia's largest mosque, all concrete and marble, built to hold more than 200,000 worshippers.
Tip: Use Gate 1: there is an information desk and a free guided tour for non-Muslims, about 20 minutes. Robes and headscarves are lent; shoes come off at the door.
🚇 TransJakarta · Istiqlal · 3 min walk
Featured in: Masjid Istiqlal
Show on mapGereja Katedral Jakarta · Pasar Baru
Neo-Gothic, finished 1901, three iron spires, standing directly across from the country's biggest mosque. The postcard of coexistence.
Tip: The Terowongan Silaturahmi, the tunnel linking it to Istiqlal, is not an everyday tourist walk: it opens for big dates (Christmas, Holy Week) and official events. Ask at the door before queuing.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Juanda · 5 min walk
Featured in: Keuskupan Agung Jakarta
Show on mapMuseum Nasional Indonesia · Gambir
The 'Museum Gajah', named for the bronze elephant out front: Hindu-Buddhist bronzes, ceramics and the country's biggest archaeology collection.
Tip: Six galleries are still shut after the 2023 fire and reopening depends on funding. Admission went up in January 2026; the Majapahit hall, the inner courtyard and the gardens are free.
🚇 TransJakarta · Monumen Nasional · 2 min walk
Featured in: Museum Nasional Indonesia
Show on mapBundaran HI · Menteng
The bronze couple waving from the fountain on the Hotel Indonesia roundabout, ground zero of modern Jakarta.
Tip: On Car Free Day Sundays the roundabout fills with runners and stalls from 6 to 10. Check first: when a marathon or big event takes the avenue, the Sudirman-Thamrin HBKB is cancelled and moved to another district.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Bundaran HI Bank Jakarta · 4 min walk
Featured in: Dishub DKI Jakarta
Show on mapMuseum Sejarah Jakarta · Kota Tua
Batavia's 1710 city hall: Dutch halls, colonial furniture and the dungeons in the cellar.
Tip: Closed Mondays and national holidays, like nearly every Kota Tua museum. Admission is around Rp 5,000 — one of the cheapest museums you will ever walk into.
🚇 TransJakarta · Museum Sejarah Jakarta · 2 min walk
Featured in: Museum Sejarah Jakarta
Show on mapTaman Fatahillah · Kota Tua
Batavia's cobbled square: colourful rental bikes with sun hats, buskers, ondel-ondel puppets and four museums around the edge.
Tip: The ontel bike hire is sold by the half hour and you should agree the price before you sit on it. At dusk the square packs out: best light for photos, worst time to move fast.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Jakarta Kota · 4 min walk
Featured in: Kota Tua Jakarta
Show on mapMuseum Wayang · Kota Tua
Thousands of puppets: pierced-leather wayang kulit, wooden wayang golek and puppets from half the world, inside a converted Dutch church.
Tip: On Sunday mornings there is usually a wayang performance included with the ticket. Closed Mondays.
🚇 TransJakarta · Museum Sejarah Jakarta · 1 min walk
Featured in: Museum Wayang
Show on mapMuseum Seni Rupa dan Keramik · Kota Tua
19th and 20th century Indonesian painting plus ceramics from across the archipelago, inside the neoclassical former Court of Justice.
Tip: The pottery workshop in the courtyard will sit you at the wheel for a few thousand rupiah. Closed Mondays.
🚇 TransJakarta · Museum Sejarah Jakarta · 3 min walk
Featured in: Museum Seni Rupa dan Keramik
Show on mapMuseum Bank Indonesia · Kota Tua
The best-produced museum in Kota Tua: the archipelago's economic history from the spice trade on, with air conditioning and screens.
Tip: It is the obvious shelter when the afternoon downpour lands: big, cool and the ticket costs small change. Closed Mondays.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Jakarta Kota · 3 min walk
Featured in: Museum Bank Indonesia
Show on mapMuseum Bank Mandiri · Kota Tua
A 1933 art deco bank frozen in time: vaults, typewriters, stained glass and the original wooden counters.
Tip: It is Jakarta's favourite pre-wedding photo set: go on a Saturday and you will walk through three shoots. Closed Mondays.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Jakarta Kota · 2 min walk
Featured in: Museum Bank Mandiri
Show on mapToko Merah · Kota Tua
The 1730 'red shop' on the Kali Besar canal: a governor-general's house, later a warehouse, now the most photogenic façade in the quarter.
Tip: The inside only opens for events and exhibitions; the canal pavement is the better view anyway, especially early.
🚇 TransJakarta · Kali Besar · 1 min walk
Featured in: Kota Tua Jakarta
Show on mapJembatan Kota Intan · Kota Tua
The last Dutch drawbridge left in Jakarta: white timber, Amsterdam-green paint, straddling the Kali Besar.
Tip: It sits between Kota Tua and Sunda Kelapa: the natural stop if you walk to the harbour instead of taking a car.
🚇 TransJakarta · Museum Sejarah Jakarta · 4 min walk
Featured in: Kota Tua Jakarta
Show on mapGereja Sion · Pinangsia
Built 1695, the oldest standing church in Jakarta: baroque pulpit, brass lamps and a Portuguese graveyard underneath.
Tip: It was built for the 'mardijkers', freed slaves of Portuguese descent: that is why the organ and the gravestone names do not sound Dutch.
🚇 TransJakarta · Mangga Dua Raya · 1 min walk
Featured in: GPIB Sion
Show on mapMuseum Bahari · Penjaringan
Inside the VOC spice warehouses by the harbour: ship models, charts and three-century-old teak beams.
Tip: It burned in 2018 and reopened restored: Tuesday to Sunday, ticket still costs small change. Pair it with the Menara Syahbandar across the road.
🚇 TransJakarta · Pakin · 5 min walk
Featured in: Museum Bahari
Show on mapMenara Syahbandar · Penjaringan
The 1839 watchtower that controlled Batavia's shipping. It leans visibly, and you climb it on a wooden stair.
Tip: It was Dutch Batavia's zero point: the survey stone is still at the foot of the tower.
🚇 TransJakarta · Pakin · 6 min walk
Featured in: Museum Bahari
Show on mapPelabuhan Sunda Kelapa · Penjaringan
A line of wooden pinisi schooners, still loaded by hand as they were 500 years ago. The harbour that gave the city its first name.
Tip: There is a token entrance fee at the gate and the dockers will offer a boat ride along the channel: agree price and length before you step in. At 7am the light is perfect and the heat has not arrived.
🚇 TransJakarta · Pakin · 12 min walk
Featured in: Pelabuhan Sunda Kelapa
Show on mapPasar Ikan · Penjaringan
The fish market next to Sunda Kelapa: ice crates, snapper, squid and the noise of the early auction.
Tip: It runs before dawn and empties by mid-morning. Wear shoes you do not mind soaking: the floor is always awash.
🚇 TransJakarta · Pakin · 6 min walk
Featured in: Pasar Ikan Jakarta
Show on mapWihara Dharma Bhakti · Glodok
Dating to 1650, Jakarta's oldest Chinese temple: incense coils hanging from the roof, red candles and a courtyard permanently in smoke.
Tip: Entry is free and photos are fine, just not in the face of someone praying. The main hall burned in 2015 and was rebuilt with salvaged original timber.
🚇 TransJakarta · Glodok · 4 min walk
Featured in: Wihara Dharma Bhakti
Show on mapGereja Santa Maria de Fatima · Glodok
A Catholic church inside a 19th-century Chinese merchant mansion: stone lions at the door and a curved roof instead of a bell tower.
Tip: It sits in the middle of Petak Sembilan: the natural stop between Jin De Yuan temple and the market, and almost nobody looks for it.
🚇 TransJakarta · Glodok · 4 min walk
Featured in: Paroki Santa Maria de Fatima
Show on mapCandra Naya · Glodok
A 19th-century Chinese Major's mansion, saved from demolition and now wedged in the courtyard of a glass tower. Jakarta in one image.
Tip: You walk in through the Green Central City lobby, free. A great air-conditioned refuge two blocks from Glodok.
🚇 TransJakarta · Taman Sari · 4 min walk
Featured in: Candra Naya
Show on mapMuseum Taman Prasasti · Petojo
A 1795 Dutch cemetery turned open-air museum: marble headstones, angels and obelisks under the trees.
Tip: The quietest spot downtown, with almost no building shade: go early. Closed Mondays.
🚇 TransJakarta · Petojo · 5 min walk
Featured in: Museum Taman Prasasti
Show on mapLapangan Banteng · Pasar Baru
The remodelled square opposite the cathedral: dancing fountain, running track, amphitheatre and the West Irian liberation monument.
Tip: The musical fountain runs after dark at weekends. It is free and it is the best-kept central park in the city.
🚇 TransJakarta · Pejambon · 5 min walk
Featured in: Pemprov DKI Jakarta
Show on mapMasjid Cut Meutia · Menteng
A mosque inside a 1912 Dutch art nouveau office building: enormous windows, white light and not a dome in sight.
Tip: The mihrab sits at an angle because the building was never aimed at Mecca: the detail guides most enjoy pointing out.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Gondangdia · 2 min walk
Featured in: Masjid Cut Meutia
Show on mapMasjid Agung Sunda Kelapa · Menteng
1970s modernist, with neither dome nor classic minaret: an upturned ship's hull in concrete, ringed by garden.
Tip: This is Menteng's mosque and it is used to visitors: ask at the office by the gate and they will let you walk the garden.
🚇 TransJakarta · Halimun · 6 min walk
Featured in: Masjid Agung Sunda Kelapa
Show on mapTaman Suropati · Menteng
Menteng's round park, with sculptures donated by the ASEAN countries and amateur violinists rehearsing on Sundays.
Tip: On Sunday mornings the Taman Suropati Chamber plays — an open orchestra anyone can join with their own instrument. Free.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Dukuh Atas BNI · 14 min walk
Featured in: Pemprov DKI Jakarta
Show on mapTaman Menteng · Menteng
An old stadium turned into a park: glass greenhouses, basketball courts and kids on bikes until sundown.
Tip: Weekday afternoons it belongs to skaters and the food stalls along Jalan HOS Cokroaminoto.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Bundaran HI Bank Jakarta · 11 min walk
Featured in: Pemprov DKI Jakarta
Show on mapTugu Proklamasi · Menteng
The garden where Sukarno and Hatta read out independence on 17 August 1945, with both statues and the bronze lightning bolt.
Tip: A block away is the Museum Perumusan Naskah Proklamasi, the house where the text was drafted: both together take an hour.
🚇 LRT Jakarta · Proklamasi · 5 min walk
Featured in: Pemprov DKI Jakarta
Show on mapMuseum Perumusan Naskah Proklamasi · Menteng
The art deco villa where the independence text was handwritten, furniture and typewriter still in place.
Tip: Near-token admission, closed Mondays. It is small: half an hour is plenty, and it is the best air-conditioned refuge nearby.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Dukuh Atas BNI · 12 min walk
Featured in: Museum Perumusan Naskah Proklamasi
Show on mapMuseum Sumpah Pemuda · Kwitang
The student boarding house where in 1928 they swore 'one homeland, one nation, one language': the birth certificate of Indonesian.
Tip: On 28 October, the pledge's anniversary, there are ceremonies and free entry — right inside the late-October window.
🚇 TransJakarta · Pal Putih · 2 min walk
Featured in: Museum Sumpah Pemuda
Show on mapMuseum Joang 45 · Menteng
A colonial hotel turned revolution museum: photographs, improvised weapons and Sukarno's two presidential cars.
Tip: The two black Buicks in the yard are the cars that carried Sukarno and Hatta on proclamation day. Closed Mondays.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Gondangdia · 6 min walk
Featured in: Museum Joang 45
Show on mapMuseum Tekstil · Tanah Abang
Batik, ikat and songket from across the archipelago in a 19th-century villa, with a dye-plant garden and a live workshop.
Tip: This is where you learn to tell batik tulis (hand-drawn with a canting) from batik cap (stamped) and from print: look at the back of the cloth — on tulis the pattern comes through just as crisp.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Tanah Abang · 4 min walk
Featured in: Museum Tekstil Jakarta
Show on mapTaman Ismail Marzuki · Cikini
Jakarta's arts complex, rebuilt from scratch: theatres, galleries, cinema, library and the planetarium, all on one block.
Tip: Check the programme first: October-November 2026 brings the Jakarta Biennale, the Jakarta Theatre Festival and the Indonesian Dance Festival through here.
🚇 TransJakarta · Pal Putih · 9 min walk
Featured in: Taman Ismail Marzuki
Show on mapPlanetarium Jakarta · Cikini
The 1964 planetarium, rebuilt inside the new Taman Ismail Marzuki: digital dome plus sky-watching on clear nights.
Tip: Shows have a seat quota and sell out; buy online from your phone the same morning.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Gondangdia · 11 min walk
Featured in: Planetarium dan Observatorium Jakarta
Show on mapGaleri Nasional Indonesia · Gambir
Indonesian modern and contemporary art in colonial pavilions facing Monas: Affandi, Raden Saleh and big temporary shows.
Tip: The permanent collection is usually free and the big shows ask for online registration with a QR code: load it on your phone before you arrive.
🚇 TransJakarta · Gambir 2 · 2 min walk
Featured in: Galeri Nasional Indonesia
Show on mapMuseum MACAN · Kebon Jeruk
Indonesia's first museum of modern and contemporary art with an international collection: big installations and a children's room worth the trip.
Tip: It sits out west, far from the MRT: entry is by timed ticket bought online, and a taxi or Grab against rush hour is the sane way there.
🚇 TransJakarta · Kebon Jeruk · 5 min walk
Featured in: Museum MACAN
Show on mapMuseum Satria Mandala · Kuningan
Indonesia's armed forces museum in Dewi Sukarno's former house: aircraft, tanks and midget submarines in the garden.
Tip: The aircraft park is free to walk around outside and is a hit with kids. Closed Mondays.
🚇 TransJakarta · Denpasar · 5 min walk
Featured in: Museum Satria Mandala
Show on mapMuseum Sasmita Loka Ahmad Yani · Menteng
General Ahmad Yani's house, left exactly as it was the night he was killed in 1965, bullet holes included.
Tip: Free entry with sign-in at the gate. It is uncomfortable, and the fastest way to understand 30 September 1965 without a book.
🚇 TransJakarta · Halimun · 5 min walk
Featured in: Museum Sasmita Loka Ahmad Yani
Show on mapMuseum di Tengah Kebun · Kemang
A private collector's house and garden in Kemang: 3,000 pieces from Asia and Africa among the trees, guided visits only.
Tip: Entry is by prior WhatsApp booking only, in small groups: message them days ahead — you will not get in on spec.
🚇 TransJakarta · Warung Jati · 10 min walk
Featured in: Museum di Tengah Kebun
Show on mapKebun Binatang Ragunan · Pasar Minggu
140 hectares of urban jungle with orangutans, Komodo dragons and the Schmutzer Primate Centre. Entry costs pennies and it is full of families.
Tip: The turnstiles take a JakCard/JakLingko card, not cash. Closed Mondays, and the Schmutzer centre charges separately.
🚇 TransJakarta · Ragunan · 9 min walk
Featured in: Taman Margasatwa Ragunan
Show on mapPerkampungan Budaya Betawi · Srengseng Sawah
A living Betawi village around a lake on the far south edge: timber houses, kerak telor on the pavement and dance on the stage.
Tip: Go on a Sunday: that is when the lenong theatre, the dancing and the gambang kromong music happen, and when every kerak telor and bir pletok stall is open.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Universitas Pancasila · 22 min walk
Featured in: Perkampungan Budaya Betawi
Show on mapMuseum Betawi · Srengseng Sawah
The Betawi culture museum inside Setu Babakan: wedding costumes, giant ondel-ondel puppets and Jakarta's creole cooking explained.
Tip: It is new, air-conditioned and costs almost nothing: the perfect way to sit out the afternoon downpour down south.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Universitas Pancasila · 13 min walk
Featured in: Museum Betawi
Show on mapTaman Mini Indonesia Indah · Cipayung
The whole of Indonesia in 150 hectares: one pavilion per province around a lake holding a scale model of the archipelago, with a cable car overhead.
Tip: Ignore the old guidebooks: since the revitalisation you can NO LONGER drive inside. You leave the car in the car park and move on foot, by bike or on the internal electric shuttles. General admission is bought online and several museums and pavilions charge separately.
🚇 LRT Jabodebek · Kampung Rambutan · 18 min walk
Featured in: Taman Mini Indonesia Indah
Show on mapMuseum Indonesia · TMII
A three-storey Balinese palace inside Taman Mini: costumes, masks and traditional architecture from all 38 provinces.
Tip: It has its own ticket on top of the park's general admission: budget TMII pavilion by pavilion, not as a single entry.
🚇 LRT Jabodebek · Kampung Rambutan · 16 min walk
Featured in: Museum Indonesia TMII
Show on mapMuseum Batik Indonesia · TMII
The national batik museum, opened 2022: motifs region by region, wax tools and the story of why UNESCO listed it.
Tip: Here you get a close look at the Ministry of Industry's Batikmark 'batik INDONESIA' label, which certifies tulis, cap or combination: that is what to look for on the tag before you pay for an expensive piece.
🚇 LRT Jabodebek · Kampung Rambutan · 17 min walk
Featured in: Museum Batik Indonesia
Show on mapMuseum Hakka Indonesia · TMII
A circular Chinese tulou built in Jakarta to tell the story of Indonesia's Chinese community, uncomfortable chapters included.
Tip: It completes Glodok: the neighbourhood shows you today's life, this museum explains how it got there.
🚇 LRT Jabodebek · Kampung Rambutan · 28 min walk
Featured in: Museum Hakka Indonesia
Show on mapTaman Impian Jaya Ancol · Pademangan
Jakarta's seafront complex: man-made beach, art market, marina and the gates of Dufan, Sea World, Atlantis and Samudra.
Tip: Ancol is NOT one ticket: you pay to enter the grounds (plus a vehicle ticket if you drive in) and then each park charges separately. Weekend prices go up and it packs out.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Ancol · 7 min walk
Featured in: Taman Impian Jaya Ancol
Show on mapDunia Fantasi · Ancol
Indonesia's classic theme park, open since 1985: roller coasters, the Halilintar and themed zones by continent.
Tip: It is paid separately from the Ancol gate and the online ticket is noticeably cheaper than at the booth. No queues midweek.
🚇 TransJakarta · Ancol · 5 min walk
Featured in: Dunia Fantasi Ancol
Show on mapAtlantis Water Adventure · Ancol
Ancol's water park: eight themed pools, slides and a wave machine facing the Java Sea.
Tip: Yet another ticket, separate from Dufan and from the gate. Bring your own towel: hiring one costs nearly as much as the entry.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Ancol · 10 min walk
Featured in: Atlantis Water Adventures Ancol
Show on mapJakarta Aquarium Safari · Neo Soho, Tanjung Duren
An indoor aquarium and zoo inside a western mall: otters, penguins and a mermaid show in the big tank.
Tip: The perfect rainy-day plan with kids: timed tickets bought online and the whole route indoors and cool.
🚇 TransJakarta · Tanjung Duren · 3 min walk
Featured in: Jakarta Aquarium & Safari
Show on mapStadion Utama Gelora Bung Karno · Senayan
The 1962 stadium with its steel 'temu gelang' ring: home of the national team and the stage for the country's biggest concerts.
Tip: It is still called Gelora Bung Karno: unlike half the transport network, its name was never sold. The surrounding complex is public and free to walk.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Istora Mandiri · 10 min walk
Featured in: PPK Gelora Bung Karno
Show on mapHutan Kota by Plataran · Senayan
The urban forest inside the Senayan complex: boardwalks over a pond, herons and restaurants among the trees.
Tip: Walking in is free; sitting down to eat is not. At dusk the lighting comes on and it fills with people taking photos.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Istora Mandiri · 2 min walk
Featured in: PPK Gelora Bung Karno
Show on mapIndonesia Arena · Senayan
The 16,000-seat indoor arena built for the 2023 Basketball World Cup, now Jakarta's most sought-after covered concert hall.
Tip: It keeps the name Indonesia Arena, with no sponsor. Concert tickets are bought online and redeemed with a QR code at the door.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Istora Mandiri · 16 min walk
Featured in: PPK Gelora Bung Karno
Show on mapJakarta International Stadium · Tanjung Priok
The northern stadium, retractable roof and hybrid pitch: 82,000 seats and Persija's crowd at full volume.
Tip: It has its own KRL station (Jakarta International Stadium) and a TransJakarta corridor: on match day that is the only sane way in.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Jakarta International Stadium · 4 min walk
Featured in: Jakarta International Stadium
Show on mapTebet Eco Park · Tebet
Two old squares joined by a sinuous red bridge over a re-naturalised creek: the park that changed what public space means in Jakarta.
Tip: Free, closed Mondays for maintenance, and capacity is controlled at weekends. The red bridge at dusk is the neighbourhood's Instagram shot.
🚇 LRT Jabodebek · Cikoko · 11 min walk
Featured in: Pemprov DKI Jakarta
Show on mapRPTRA Kalijodo · Penjaringan
A former red-light district razed and turned into a skatepark and public square: graffiti, ramps and the city's most abrupt urban story.
Tip: Free and open late. The skatepark fills up at night when the heat drops: the best place in town to watch street culture.
🚇 TransJakarta · Jembatan Dua · 8 min walk
Featured in: Pemprov DKI Jakarta
Show on mapMeriam Si Jagur · Kota Tua
A 17th-century Portuguese cannon with a bronze hand making an obscene gesture, still receiving offerings on Fatahillah Square.
Tip: Cast in Macau, captured by the Dutch at Malacca and ending up in Batavia: three empires in one object.
🚇 TransJakarta · Museum Sejarah Jakarta · 1 min walk
Featured in: Museum Sejarah Jakarta
Show on mapMasjid Keramat Luar Batang · Penjaringan
An 18th-century pilgrimage mosque by the harbour, holding the tomb of Habib Husein: narrow alleys and a constant stream of pilgrims.
Tip: This is a place of devotion, not a sight: dress covered, take your shoes off and do not photograph pilgrims up close.
🚇 TransJakarta · Pakin · 6 min walk
Featured in: Masjid Keramat Luar Batang
Show on mapIstana Merdeka · Gambir
The neoclassical presidential palace facing Monas, with the honour guard and the flag ceremony visible from the fence.
Tip: The inside is by official visit only. What you can do is sit in Taman Pandang Istana, the public viewing park opposite.
🚇 TransJakarta · Pecenongan · 7 min walk
Featured in: Sekretariat Presiden RI
Show on mapCafe Batavia · Kota Tua
The second-oldest building on Fatahillah Square: ceiling fans, a grand piano and thousands of portraits on the walls.
Tip: Still open and not cheap, but you can go upstairs and order just a coffee on the first-floor balcony: the best view of the square.
🚇 TransJakarta · Museum Sejarah Jakarta · 1 min walk
Featured in: Cafe Batavia
Show on mapPantjoran Tea House · Glodok
The restored Chandra pharmacy on the Glodok corner: gongfu cha service, dim sum and eight free teapots out on the pavement.
Tip: The eight teapots on the pavement are the 'Patekoan' tradition: free tea for passers-by. Pour yourself one, no purchase needed.
🚇 TransJakarta · Glodok · 2 min walk
Featured in: Pantjoran Tea House
Show on mapPetak Enam · Glodok
The Chinese-Indonesian food court inside Glodok's Chandra building: roast duck, kwetiau, bakmi and desserts under one roof.
Tip: You pay with a house top-up card, not stall by stall: load it once on the way in and refund the balance on the way out.
🚇 TransJakarta · Glodok · 5 min walk
Featured in: Petak Enam Glodok
Show on mapGang Petak Sembilan · Glodok
The Glodok market alley: tropical fruit, hanging ducks, mooncakes and vendors who have held the same corner for 40 years.
Tip: The best place in town for seasonal fruit: from November to February durian, rambutan and mangosteen show up at local prices.
🚇 TransJakarta · Glodok · 4 min walk
Featured in: Pasar Petak Sembilan
Show on mapBakmi Gang Kelinci · Pasar Baru
Since 1957 in Pasar Baru's rabbit alley: egg noodles, pangsit dumplings and bakmi with sautéed chicken, a recipe that never changed.
Tip: Still open, still full at lunch. Order the bakmi 'yamin' — dry and sweet — if you want the version locals ask for.
🚇 TransJakarta · Pasar Baru · 5 min walk
Featured in: Bakmi Gang Kelinci
Show on mapNasi Goreng Kambing Kebon Sirih · Menteng
Goat fried rice cooked in a giant wok over wood, on the pavement, since the 1950s. Smoke, mutton fat and a queue at midnight.
Tip: It opens at night and works until the small hours: the classic plan after a night out in Menteng or Jalan Jaksa.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Bundaran HI Bank Jakarta · 12 min walk
Featured in: Kuliner Kebon Sirih
Show on mapSate Khas Senayan · Menteng
Jakarta's oldest sate chain, founded 1974: chicken, lamb and rabbit skewers with peanut sauce and compressed rice.
Tip: Still open and now all over town. It is the safe entry point to Indonesian food on day one: low chilli and an English menu.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Bundaran HI Bank Jakarta · 10 min walk
Featured in: Sate Khas Senayan
Show on mapGado-Gado Boplo · Karet, Setiabudi
Jakarta's gado-gado house since 1970: boiled vegetables, egg, tofu and a peanut sauce ground to order.
Tip: Ask for 'pedas sedang' for medium heat: by default they make it mild for visitors. Vegetarian if you drop the egg and the prawn crackers.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Bendungan Hilir · 4 min walk
Featured in: Gado-Gado Boplo
Show on mapSoto Betawi H. Mamat · Tomang
Real soto betawi: a milk-and-coconut broth with beef, lung and marrow, tomato, fried potato and a squeeze of lime.
Tip: If you would rather skip the offal ask for 'daging saja' (meat only). It is the single most representative dish of Jakarta's creole kitchen.
🚇 TransJakarta · Tomang Raya · 2 min walk
Featured in: Kuliner Betawi Jakarta
Show on mapAsinan Betawi Asymuni · Matraman
Asinan betawi: vegetables pickled in vinegar and chilli, topped with peanuts and crackers. Sour, hot and cold — the Betawi antidote to the heat.
Tip: One of the few Betawi dishes that has nearly vanished from restaurants: you eat it at a stall like this one or not at all.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Jatinegara · 6 min walk
Featured in: Kuliner Betawi Jakarta
Show on mapKerak Telor Mpok Yani · Gunung Sahari
Kerak telor: glutinous rice and duck egg cooked over coals in a pan that gets flipped onto the flame, finished with toasted coconut and dried shrimp.
Tip: This is fairground food: it turns up at fairs, festivals and at Setu Babakan on weekends. Ask the price first, it varies a lot.
🚇 TransJakarta · JIEXPO Kemayoran · 5 min walk
Featured in: Kuliner Betawi Jakarta
Show on mapNasi Uduk Kebon Kacang Ibu Tati · Kebon Kacang
Rice cooked in coconut milk with pandan, served with fried chicken, tempeh, cucumber and sambal, in the alley that gave the dish its name.
Tip: This is Betawi breakfast: at 7am it is at its best, and by 11 the good pieces are gone.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Bundaran HI Bank Jakarta · 8 min walk
Featured in: Kuliner Betawi Jakarta
Show on mapNatrabu · Menteng
A classic Padang restaurant on Sabang: fifteen little plates land on the table and you pay only for what you touch. Rendang, gulai, cassava leaf.
Tip: That is how Padang 'hidang' works: do not ask for a menu. If you are not going to eat a dish, do not touch it and it is not charged.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Bundaran HI Bank Jakarta · 11 min walk
Featured in: Kuliner Minang Jakarta
Show on mapRestoran Sederhana · Slipi
Indonesia's best-known Padang chain: dark long-cooked rendang, ayam pop and the green chilli sauce that is always on the table.
Tip: Proper rendang is almost black and dry, not an orange curry: if it comes swimming in sauce it is not rendang, it is kalio.
🚇 TransJakarta · Petamburan · 5 min walk
Featured in: Kuliner Minang Jakarta
Show on mapLara Djonggrang · Menteng
A Menteng mansion turned into a dimly lit stage set: Javanese and island cooking among statues, candles and antiques.
Tip: Book ahead: it has several rooms and the one worth having is the courtyard. One of the few places in Jakarta where dressing up pays off.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Cikini · 9 min walk
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Show on mapSeribu Rasa · Menteng
Indonesian and Southeast Asian cooking in a dark-timber room full of lanterns: crisp duck, banana-leaf fish and sambal matah.
Tip: The easy choice for a group dinner: English menu, adjustable chilli and online booking.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Bundaran HI Bank Jakarta · 6 min walk
Featured in: Seribu Rasa
Show on mapKAUM Jakarta · Menteng
Indonesian tribal recipes recovered island by island, served in a reclaimed-timber room: babi guling, ikan bakar, sambal by region.
Tip: Each dish names the island it comes from: the fastest way to grasp that 'Indonesian food' is twenty different cuisines.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Dukuh Atas BNI · 5 min walk
Featured in: KAUM Jakarta
Show on mapCarrots Bar · Senayan
A hidden Senayan cocktail bar built on Indonesian farm produce and kitchen offcuts: the most awarded bar in the country.
Tip: It came in at No. 21 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026. Book: it is small and from Wednesday to Saturday you will not get in without a table.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Istora Mandiri · 6 min walk
Featured in: Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026 · n.º 21
Show on mapHenshin · The Westin, Kuningan
Peruvian-Japanese nikkei on floors 67 to 69 of a Kuningan tower, with Jakarta's highest terrace and a 360-degree view.
Tip: Watch the forecast: in the rainy season the terrace shuts without warning and you get moved indoors. There is a dress code.
🚇 LRT Jabodebek · Rasuna Said · 4 min walk
Featured in: Henshin Jakarta
Show on mapSKYE · Menara BCA, Thamrin
Jakarta's classic rooftop, on the 56th floor of Menara BCA: pool, cocktails and the Bundaran HI roundabout as backdrop.
Tip: The season's first rains wash the air, and that is when the skyline looks best from up here: if the day dawns clear, book for sunset.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Dukuh Atas BNI · 6 min walk
Featured in: SKYE Jakarta
Show on mapPlataran Dharmawangsa · Kebayoran Baru
A Javanese mansion with a garden in the south's priciest district: Java and Bali cooking, a teak pendopo and open-air dinner.
Tip: Ask for a table in the pendopo, not indoors. In the rainy season book the covered room just in case.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Blok A VISA · 8 min walk
Featured in: Plataran Indonesia
Show on mapThe Dharmawangsa · Kebayoran Baru
The south's ambassadors' hotel, holder of a 2026 MICHELIN Key: its Sriwijaya restaurant serves high Indonesian cuisine, open to the public.
Tip: You do not need to sleep there to eat there: the lobby afternoon tea is the cheapest way in to see the place.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Blok A VISA · 12 min walk
Featured in: MICHELIN Keys 2026 · 1 Llave
Show on mapFour Seasons Hotel Jakarta · Kuningan
One of Jakarta's two hotels with two 2026 MICHELIN Keys: its restaurant and garden bar are open to anyone.
Tip: Indonesia still has no red restaurant guide: the MICHELIN Keys are the only MICHELIN selection covering the country, and Jakarta has seven hotels in it.
🚇 TransJakarta · Denpasar · 3 min walk
Featured in: MICHELIN Keys 2026 · 2 Llaves
Show on mapRaffles Jakarta · Ciputra World, Kuningan
A 2026 MICHELIN Key and Hendra Gunawan's art collection down the corridors: its Arts Café serves the city's most photographed afternoon tea.
Tip: The lobby and gallery can be walked without buying anything: a small air-conditioned museum of modern Indonesian art.
🚇 LRT Jabodebek · Rasuna Said · 12 min walk
Featured in: MICHELIN Keys 2026 · 1 Llave
Show on mapMartabak Pecenongan 78 · Tanjung Duren
Martabak manis: a thick pancake of fermented batter split open and loaded with butter, condensed milk, peanuts and chocolate.
Tip: This is night food: martabak stalls open at sundown and close in the small hours. Order half sweet and half savoury (telur) and share it.
🚇 TransJakarta · Grogol Reformasi · 11 min walk
Featured in: Martabak Pecenongan
Show on mapBebek Bengil · Kebon Kacang, Thamrin
The Balinese crispy duck that started in Ubud: spice-marinated, steamed and then fried whole.
Tip: Half a duck feeds two. Ask for sambal matah on the side: the raw shallot, lemongrass and lime relish that changes everything.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Bundaran HI Bank Jakarta · 2 min walk
Featured in: Bebek Bengil
Show on mapSate Taichan 87 · Kebayoran Lama
Sate taichan was born on Senayan's pavements: chicken with no peanut sauce, just salt, lime and a green sambal that burns.
Tip: It is a recent street invention, not a traditional dish: hence eaten at night, on a plastic stool, never in a restaurant.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Senayan Mastercard · 17 min walk
Featured in: Kuliner Senayan
Show on mapBakmi Boy · Pasar Santa
Egg noodles inside Pasar Santa, the neighbourhood market that became South Jakarta's food laboratory.
Tip: Pasar Santa is still open and still half vegetable market, half indie coffee and food stalls: go in the morning to catch both.
🚇 TransJakarta · Pasar Santa · 5 min walk
Featured in: Pasar Santa
Show on mapBebek Kaleyo · Tebet
Fried duck with green sambal and unlimited rice, open until dawn: the favourite canteen of Tebet's night owls.
Tip: Rice refills are free. Ask for 'sambal ijo' (green) instead of the red one: that is the match for the duck here.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Tebet · 3 min walk
Featured in: Bebek Kaleyo
Show on mapSoto Kudus Blok M · Tebet
Kudus-style soto: clear chicken broth with fried garlic, served in a small bowl with rice on the side and a potato perkedel.
Tip: The mildest soto in the country: a good first bowl if you are not yet ready for soto betawi, which has milk and offal.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Tebet · 13 min walk
Featured in: Soto Kudus Blok M
Show on mapRestoran Angke · Gajah Mada, Krukut
A classic Chinese-Indonesian house on Hayam Wuruk since 1970: roast pork, wok-fired kwetiau, steamed fish and weekend dim sum.
Tip: It is not halal: in Glodok and all along the Hayam Wuruk strip you will find pork, which is rare elsewhere in the city.
🚇 TransJakarta · Sawah Besar · 5 min walk
Featured in: Restoran Angke
Show on mapYa Udah Bistro · Jalan Jaksa, Menteng
An 1980s German-Indonesian bistro on Jalan Jaksa, the old backpacker street: schnitzel, cold beer and pavement tables.
Tip: Jalan Jaksa is no longer the backpacker street it was, but this corner survived: still the meeting point for downtown expats.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Gondangdia · 4 min walk
Featured in: Ya Udah Bistro
Show on mapWarung Tekko · Kuningan
The house of iga penyet: beef ribs smashed and fried onto sambal, with rice and raw vegetables, in a timber-and-bamboo room.
Tip: 'Penyet' means smashed: it arrives pressed into the sambal in a stone mortar. Say so if you do not want heat, it comes strong.
🚇 LRT Jabodebek · Rasuna Said · 1 min walk
Featured in: Warung Tekko
Show on mapSate Padang Ajo Ramon · Petogogan
Sate padang: tongue and beef skewers drowned in a thick sauce of rice flour, turmeric and chilli.
Tip: Nothing like peanut sate: this one is yellow, thick and hot. It is the cart Padang people look for in Senopati.
🚇 TransJakarta · Pasar Santa · 5 min walk
Featured in: Kuliner Minang Jakarta
Show on mapNasi Kapau Rayo · Kebayoran Baru
Nasi kapau, Bukittinggi's cousin of Padang food: tripe gulai, dendeng and green chilli served from a stepped stall.
Tip: It is served with a long-handled ladle from the stepped display: point at what you want, no Indonesian needed.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Blok A VISA · 6 min walk
Featured in: Kuliner Minang Jakarta
Show on mapSop Kaki Kambing Dudung · Tanjung Duren
A Betawi goat-trotter soup in a milk broth, with emping crackers, lime and plenty of chilli: night food, against tiredness.
Tip: One of the hardest Betawi dishes to find in daylight: the stalls open at dusk and work until dawn.
🚇 TransJakarta · Jelambar · 13 min walk
Featured in: Kuliner Betawi Jakarta
Show on mapKopi Oey · Blok M
A retro diner hung with 1950s signage: kopi tubruk, nasi goreng, roti bakar and the whole menu of a village warung, indoors.
Tip: A good place to try kopi tubruk: coarse grounds with boiling water poured straight on, no filter. Let it settle before you drink.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Blok M BCA · 5 min walk
Featured in: Kopi Oey
Show on mapRumah Makan Betawi · Jagakarsa
A Betawi canteen on the way to Setu Babakan: soto betawi, gabus pucung, sayur besan and the dishes nobody cooks downtown any more.
Tip: Ask for gabus pucung if they have it: fish in a black keluak broth, the strangest Betawi dish and the one guidebooks never list.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Lenteng Agung · 23 min walk
Featured in: Kuliner Betawi Jakarta
Show on mapDjauw Coffee · Glodok
A Chinese-Indonesian kopitiam on Jalan Kemenangan: coffee brewed in hot sand, butter coffee and the classic soft-egg-and-toast breakfast.
Tip: The sand-brewed coffee is made in front of you and takes time: order it the moment you sit and watch the street while you wait.
🚇 TransJakarta · Glodok · 3 min walk
Featured in: Kopitiam Glodok
Show on mapRagusa Es Italia · Sawah Besar
An Italian gelateria opened in 1932 by two brothers from Sicily: rattan chairs, the original sign and the same spaghetti ice cream.
Tip: Regulars order the 'tutti frutti' with rum. It is two blocks from Pasar Baru: the natural stop on that walk.
🚇 TransJakarta · Juanda · 2 min walk
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Show on mapRoti Bakar Eddy · Blok M
A Blok M night institution since 1971: griddled toast with cheese, chocolate or condensed milk, and hot coffee until late.
Tip: Roti bakar is Jakarta's breakfast and its 3am snack: order it 'keju susu' (cheese and condensed milk) with a kopi tubruk.
🚇 MRT Lin M · ASEAN Headquarters · 4 min walk
Featured in: Roti Bakar Eddy
Show on mapacaraki - The Art of Jamu · Kota Tua
Jamu, Javanese herbal medicine, served with specialty-coffee technique: turmeric, tamarind and ginger through a V60 or an espresso machine.
Tip: Order the turmeric 'golden sunrise': the gateway jamu for anyone who has never tried it, and it is right in Kota Tua.
🚇 TransJakarta · Kali Besar · 2 min walk
Featured in: Acaraki Jamu
Show on mapWarung Jamu Bukti Mentjos · Paseban, Senen
A jamu apothecary since 1950: glass jars, roots ground to order and recipes against colds, tiredness and the heat.
Tip: This is the real thing, bitter and unsweetened: ask for 'beras kencur' if you want to start with the mildest.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Kramat · 4 min walk
Featured in: Warung Jamu Bukti Mentjos
Show on mapBabah Koffie by Kawisari · Kota Tua
Indonesian estate coffee in a colonial building on the Kali Besar: Java, Gayo and Toraja beans, roasted by the same company since 1870.
Tip: Indonesia grows the stuff: order a single Indonesian origin, not a blend. Gayo is citric, Toraja earthy, Java full-bodied.
🚇 TransJakarta · Kali Besar · 1 min walk
Featured in: Kawisari Coffee
Show on mapDjakarté · Kota Tua
A café-bar in a Batavia house with a gallery over the canal: Indonesian breakfast, kopi susu and tables on the cobbles.
Tip: It is the nearest air-conditioned refuge to Fatahillah Square when the 1pm sun turns unbearable.
🚇 TransJakarta · Kali Besar · 2 min walk
Featured in: Djakarté Kota Tua
Show on mapBangiKopitiam · Kota Tua
A Malay-Chinese style kopitiam: condensed-milk coffee, kaya toast and half-boiled eggs for dipping.
Tip: Say 'kopi O' for black with sugar, 'kopi C' with evaporated milk: the kopitiam code works across Southeast Asia.
🚇 TransJakarta · Kali Besar · 2 min walk
Featured in: Kopitiam Jakarta
Show on mapAh Pek Kopitiam · Bendungan Hilir
A Chinese-Indonesian kopitiam in the middle of the office district: condensed-milk coffee, kaya and griddled bread in a thick porcelain cup.
Tip: It sits in the heart of Sudirman: the cheap breakfast in an area where everything else costs triple.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Bendungan Hilir · 14 min walk
Featured in: Kopitiam Jakarta
Show on mapFilosofi Kopi · Pos Bloc, Pasar Baru
The café that grew out of an Indonesian film, inside the old Post Office turned creative space.
Tip: Pos Bloc is free and open late: markets, small gigs and Indonesian design shops share the same hall.
🚇 TransJakarta · Pasar Baru · 2 min walk
Featured in: Pos Bloc Jakarta
Show on mapBakoel Koffie · Cikini
Indonesia's oldest coffee brand, founded 1878, in a Cikini house with a garden: own roast and all-day breakfast.
Tip: It is half a block from Taman Ismail Marzuki: the logical stop before a show or an exhibition.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Gondangdia · 7 min walk
Featured in: Bakoel Koffie
Show on mapToko Kopi TUKU · Stasiun MRT Dukuh Atas BNI
The brand that invented Indonesia's 'es kopi susu': coffee with milk and coconut sugar in a plastic cup, served through a hatch.
Tip: The 'kopi susu tetangga' is young Jakarta's national drink and costs less than a chain coffee. Pay with QRIS from your phone.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Dukuh Atas BNI · 2 min walk
Featured in: Toko Kopi Tuku
Show on mapToko Kopi TUKU · Cipete
The original 2015 Cipete shop: a hatch on the pavement with a permanent queue and no chairs at all.
Tip: The MRT station across the road is called Cipete Raya TUKU: the station name was sold to the neighbourhood coffee shop, not the other way round.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Cipete Raya TUKU · 6 min walk
Featured in: Toko Kopi Tuku
Show on mapAnomali Coffee · Senopati
A pioneer of Indonesia's third wave: only domestic origins, from Aceh Gayo to Flores Bajawa, roasted in house.
Tip: Senopati is the south's fashionable strip: cafés by day, bars by night. It is walkable, which is rare in Jakarta.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Senayan Mastercard · 10 min walk
Featured in: Anomali Coffee
Show on mapTanamera Coffee · Kebon Melati, Thamrin
An Indonesian roastery with international competition medals: Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi micro-lots plus office brunch.
Tip: If you are taking coffee home, they sell single-origin bags with the roast date: the best edible souvenir in Indonesia.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Bundaran HI Bank Jakarta · 10 min walk
Featured in: Tanamera Coffee
Show on mapCrematology Coffee Roasters · Kuningan
Concrete, white light and precision filter brews: the design café that became half of Kuningan's informal office.
Tip: Good wifi and power sockets: one of the few places in Jakarta where you can work without being hurried out.
🚇 LRT Jabodebek · Kuningan · 1 min walk
Featured in: Crematology Coffee Roasters
Show on mapDifabis Coffee and Tea · Dukuh Atas
A café staffed entirely by baristas with disabilities, beside the Dukuh Atas transport hub.
Tip: It sits where the MRT, LRT, KRL and the airport train all meet: the best place in town to kill a wait.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Dukuh Atas BNI · 2 min walk
Featured in: Difabis Coffee and Tea
Show on mapSaudagar Kopi · Jalan Sabang
Coffee and Indonesian food on Jalan Sabang, downtown's eating street: kopi tubruk, es kopi susu and a modern take on the warung.
Tip: Jalan Sabang turns into a line of stalls at night: this is the seated spot from which to watch it.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Bundaran HI Bank Jakarta · 11 min walk
Featured in: Kuliner Jalan Sabang
Show on mapEs Teler 77 · Slipi
The national iced dessert since 1982: avocado, jackfruit, young coconut, condensed milk and crushed ice in one glass.
Tip: It won a national contest in 1982 and has been Indonesia's default dessert ever since. At 33 degrees and humid, it makes perfect sense.
🚇 TransJakarta · Kemanggisan · 10 min walk
Featured in: Es Teler 77
Show on mapCendol Duren Bang Delon · Gandaria Utara
Es cendol with durian: green rice-flour worms, coconut milk, palm sugar and a scoop of durian on top.
Tip: Jakarta's strong durian season runs November to February: that is when the pulp is fresh rather than frozen. Ask for it without if you cannot face it.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Blok A VISA · 13 min walk
Featured in: Kuliner Jakarta Selatan
Show on map% Arabica · Central Park, Tanjung Duren
The minimalist Japanese coffee bar inside the western mall: a flawless latte, a long queue and 20-degree air conditioning.
Tip: It is next to the Jakarta Aquarium: the complete rainy-day plan if you head west with kids.
🚇 TransJakarta · Tanjung Duren · 2 min walk
Featured in: % Arabica Jakarta
Show on mapTjikini · Cikini
A café in the district where the artists and poets of independence lived, steps from Taman Ismail Marzuki.
Tip: Cikini is the most walkable district downtown: old bookshops, galleries and the KRL station five minutes away.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Gondangdia · 6 min walk
Featured in: Kuliner Cikini
Show on mapToko Kopi Sidikalang Jaya · Jelambar
A roaster and bean shop west of Glodok: loose coffee from Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi, with tubruk poured at the counter.
Tip: Buying loose beans in shops like this costs a fraction of what a southern specialty café charges.
🚇 TransJakarta · Jembatan Besi · 15 min walk
Featured in: Kopi Sidikalang Jakarta
Show on mapAnomali Coffee · Kemang
The Kemang branch, in the district of garden villas, expat bars and southern galleries.
Tip: Kemang has no train station: you arrive by Grab or Gojek, and on the way back it is best to order the car from inside.
🚇 TransJakarta · Warung Jati · 14 min walk
Featured in: Anomali Coffee
Show on mapToko Kopi TUKU · Pasar Santa
The kopi susu hatch inside Pasar Santa market, between vegetable stalls and record shops.
Tip: The upper floor of Pasar Santa is where Jakarta's independent coffee scene was born, around 2014.
🚇 TransJakarta · Pasar Santa · 6 min walk
Featured in: Toko Kopi Tuku
Show on mapPasar Tanah Abang · Tanah Abang
Ten floors of fabric, batik, hijabs and wholesale clothing: Indonesia's biggest textile hub, chaotic and cheap.
Tip: Indonesian media call it Southeast Asia's largest textile market; with no official figure behind that, stick with largest in the country. Always haggle, and prices drop if you buy three.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Tanah Abang · 4 min walk
Featured in: Pasar Tanah Abang
Show on mapPasar Baru · Sawah Besar
Jakarta's oldest pedestrian shopping street, dating to 1820: Indian tailors, shoe shops, camera dealers and batik cloth.
Tip: The Pasar Baru tailors will make a shirt to measure in 48 hours: leave your measurements on day one and collect before you fly.
🚇 TransJakarta · Pasar Baru · 3 min walk
Featured in: Pasar Baru Jakarta
Show on mapPasar Glodok · Glodok
The market of Jakarta's Chinatown: dried herbs, incense, Chinese pastry, fresh tofu and electronics upstairs.
Tip: This is where the city shops for Chinese New Year: in January and February the district turns red and becomes impassably full.
🚇 TransJakarta · Glodok · 2 min walk
Featured in: Pasar Glodok
Show on mapPasar Antik Jalan Surabaya · Menteng
A Menteng block lined with antique stalls: vinyl, ship lamps, masks, coins and gramophones.
Tip: Plenty of it is deliberately aged reproduction, and that is fine: haggle down to a third of the opening price and buy what you like, not what is old.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Cikini · 3 min walk
Featured in: Pasar Antik Jalan Surabaya
Show on mapPasar Santa · Kebayoran Baru
A converted neighbourhood market: vegetables and fish below, vinyl, indie coffee and vintage clothing above.
Tip: It is still open after the 2015 boom and bust: quieter and cheaper now, which is exactly what makes it good.
🚇 TransJakarta · Rawa Barat · 6 min walk
Featured in: Pasar Santa
Show on mapPasar Mayestik · Kebayoran Baru
The south's fabric market: batik sold by the cut, lace, buttons and tailors who sew on the same floor where you buy the cloth.
Tip: For batik, check the back of the cloth before paying: on tulis and cap the pattern goes through, on print it sits on one side only. A Batikmark label is better still.
🚇 TransJakarta · Mayestik · 1 min walk
Featured in: Pasar Mayestik
Show on mapSarinah · Thamrin
Indonesia's first department store, opened 1966 and reopened after a major renovation: curated crafts, batik and Indonesian design.
Tip: The best place to buy batik and crafts at fixed prices if you would rather not haggle: the crafts floor is upstairs and the 1966 mural was preserved.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Bundaran HI Bank Jakarta · 6 min walk
Featured in: Sarinah
Show on mapThamrin City · Tanah Abang
An entire mall given over to batik and Muslim clothing, two blocks from Tanah Abang and air-conditioned.
Tip: It is the air-conditioned version of Tanah Abang: similar prices, half the chaos. You still haggle, just less.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Bundaran HI Bank Jakarta · 10 min walk
Featured in: Thamrin City
Show on mapBatik Keris · Menteng
A national batik chain since 1947: shirts, cloth and pieces from Solo and Yogyakarta, labelled and fixed-price.
Tip: Batik is UNESCO Intangible Heritage and there is an official mark, the Ministry of Industry's Batikmark 'batik INDONESIA', distinguishing tulis, cap and combination. Not every piece carries it: if it is missing, check the back of the cloth.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Dukuh Atas BNI · 10 min walk
Featured in: Batik Keris
Show on mapPasar Seni Ancol · Ancol
Ancol's art market: painters' studios, wood crafts, portrait artists and galleries by the sea.
Tip: It is inside the Ancol grounds, so you have already paid the gate to get here. The sunset over the Java Sea is visible from this spot.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Ancol · 9 min walk
Featured in: Pasar Seni Ancol
Show on mapPlaza Indonesia · Thamrin
The luxury mall on Bundaran HI, open since 1990: international labels, cinemas and the Thamrin hotel cluster.
Tip: The mall in Jakarta is not just shopping: it is the air-conditioned public space where the city meets when it rains or hits 34 degrees.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Bundaran HI Bank Jakarta · 3 min walk
Featured in: Plaza Indonesia
Show on mapGrand Indonesia Shopping Town · Thamrin
Two towers joined by a bridge over the avenue, with an indoor fountain show and eight floors of shops.
Tip: A walkway connects it to the Bundaran HI Bank Jakarta MRT station: you can arrive and leave without touching the street or the rain.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Bundaran HI Bank Jakarta · 6 min walk
Featured in: Grand Indonesia
Show on mapPacific Place Mall · SCBD
The SCBD mall, in the southern financial district: luxury, chef-driven restaurants and the walkway to the office towers.
Tip: From here you can walk to Senopati through the SCBD, one of the few parts of Jakarta with decent shaded pavements.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Istora Mandiri · 4 min walk
Featured in: Pacific Place
Show on mapPlaza Senayan · Senayan
A classic 1996 mall beside the Gelora Bung Karno complex, with a cinema, a big bookshop and an Indonesian food court.
Tip: It is ten minutes on foot from Senayan Mastercard MRT station: on a GBK concert day it is the obvious shelter before doors.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Senayan Mastercard · 4 min walk
Featured in: Plaza Senayan
Show on mapBlok M Square · Blok M
Six floors on top of the Blok M terminal: cheap clothes, an entire basement of secondhand books and a popular food court.
Tip: The secondhand book basement is what makes the trip: since the Gunung Agung chain closed, it is one of the city's last cheap-paper holdouts.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Blok M BCA · 4 min walk
Featured in: Blok M Square
Show on mapKota Kasablanka · Tebet
One of the south's biggest malls, with its own concert hall (The Kasablanka) and a huge Indonesian food court.
Tip: The Kasablanka hall hosts much of the mid-size international touring circuit: if there is a gig, check the week's listings.
🚇 LRT Jabodebek · Rasuna Said · 15 min walk
Featured in: Kota Kasablanka
Show on mapLippo Mall Kemang · Kemang
Kemang's mall, in the south's expat and gallery district: design shops, an import supermarket and terraces.
Tip: Kemang floods in heavy rain: if the forecast shows a storm, do Kemang early and head back north before the afternoon.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Haji Nawi · 23 min walk
Featured in: Lippo Mall Kemang
Show on mapCentral Park Mall · Tanjung Duren
The western mall with its elevated garden (Tribeca Park), the aquarium and one of the nicest open-air plazas in the city.
Tip: Tribeca Park is free and open: at dusk it fills with families and buskers, and you never have to enter the mall.
🚇 TransJakarta · Tanjung Duren · 4 min walk
Featured in: Central Park Mall
Show on mapAshta District 8 · SCBD
The SCBD's small, curated mall: local design labels, Japanese coffee bars and the amphitheatre staircase everyone photographs.
Tip: The best place to buy contemporary Indonesian clothing and accessory labels — not souvenirs.
🚇 MRT Lin M · Senayan Mastercard · 7 min walk
Featured in: Ashta District 8
Show on mapGandaria City · Kebayoran Lama
A big southern mall next to Kebayoran KRL station: cinemas, bookshop, food court and a large supermarket.
Tip: On Sunday 25 October 2026 the Sudirman Car Free Day moves right next door, to Jalan Sultan Iskandar Muda, 5:30 to 9am: you can park at Gandaria City.
🚇 TransJakarta · Velbak · 7 min walk
Featured in: Gandaria City
Show on mapPondok Indah Mall 1 · Pondok Indah
The three-mall complex of the deep south, home of Jakarta Fashion Week and the open-air restaurants of Street Gallery.
Tip: Jakarta Fashion Week runs at PIM 3: the 2027 edition opens on 26 October 2026, just as the Running Festival ends.
🚇 TransJakarta · Pondok Indah · 3 min walk
Featured in: Pondok Indah Mall
Show on mapPasar Pecah Kulit · Pinangsia
A neighbourhood market east of Glodok with not one concession to tourism: fruit, spices, fish and an aisle of food stalls.
Tip: This is where you see the fruit season live: from November durian, mangosteen and rambutan pile up on the pavement.
🚇 KRL Commuterline · Jayakarta · 2 min walk
Featured in: Pasar Pecah Kulit
Show on mapSenayan Park · Senayan
A low, open mall inside the Senayan complex: terraces, restaurants with outdoor tables and the urban forest next door.
Tip: Being open-air, it is the one Jakarta mall to save for a day without storms in the forecast during the wet season.
🚇 TransJakarta · Gerbang Pemuda · 7 min walk
Featured in: Senayan Park
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