Pekalongan
Pekalongan is a city of Central Java, Indonesia.
Pekalongan is a city of Central Java, Indonesia. It was formerly the seat of Pekalongan Regency on the northern coast of the province, but is now an independent municipality within the province. It covers a land area of 45.25 km2 and had a population of 281,434 at the 2010 Census and 307,150 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as of mid-2025 was 324,564. The city is Central Java's most important port, and is known for its batik. Since December 2014, Pekalongan has been a member of UNESCO's World's Creative Cities Network, the first Southeast Asian city to be added to the list.
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Worth seeing in and around Pekalongan
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Pekalongan Batik Museum
Pekalongan Batik Museum is a batik museum located in Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia.
1.1 km · This museum has a land and building area of 40 square meters and has 1149 collections of batik, including wayang beber made of batik cloth that is hundreds of years old and traditional looms or known as non-machine looms. · Wikipedia - 02Hoegeng Stadium
Hoegeng Stadium is a football stadium in Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia, and the home of Persip Pekalongan. The stadium was built in 1986 and designed with a capacity of 20,000 spectators.
100 m · football stadium in Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia · Wikipedia - 03Moh Sarengat Stadium
Moh Sarengat Stadium is the name of a football stadium in the town of Batang, Batang Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. The stadium has the capacity of 20,000 and is equipped with a football field.
5.9 km · football stadium in Batang, Central Java, Indonesia · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
See Batik Museum in the city of Pekalongan.
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Things to do
Take a hot bath in Guci natural hot spring in Tegal.
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Where to eat
Warung Tegal (abbreviated as "Warteg"), a general term for middle to lower class food and beverage stalls on the side of the road in Indonesia. Most of them were managed by people from two villages in Tegal Regency back then.
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Getting to Pekalongan
- Airports
- Jenderal Ahmad Yani (SRG), 79 km · Yogyakarta (YIA), 122 km · Adisoemarmo (SOC), 139 km
- Semarang → Pekalongan83 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · Rp54,700–72,950
- Yogyakarta → Pekalongan127 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · Rp103,000–137,000
- Surakarta → Pekalongan148 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · Rp112,000–149,000
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No local-transport research exists yet for Pekalongan
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Pekalongan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Pekalongan
- Kedungwunidistrict in Pekalongan Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia9.5 km