Pekalongan
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.
Getting to Pekalongan
Some cities, Brebes, Tegal, Pemalang, Pekalongan, and Batang is served by train services from Indonesia's capital Jakarta or Central Java's capital Semarang.
Worth seeing
See Batik Museum in the city of Pekalongan.
Things to do
Take a hot bath in Guci natural hot spring in Tegal.
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.
Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Arifedisant (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.