Yogyakarta: History and Monuments
Yogyakarta · Indonesia
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Step back in time as you explore the royal heart of the city. You will wander through ancient bathing pools, walk the grounds of a living palace, and stand before a landmark tower. This journey brings the legacy of the Javanese monarchy to life right before your eyes.
The walk
Taman Sari Water Castle
A royal pleasure garden of water palaces and underground tunnels built for Sultan Hamengkubuwana I.
Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat
The living seat of the Sultan, born from a colonial treaty and rebuilt after fire and earthquakes.
Tugu Yogyakarta
A royal axis marker that survived an earthquake and a colonial redesign to become the city's icon.
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
More walks in Yogyakarta
6 walks
How a walk works
The guide starts talking when you arrive.
This page is the map and the itinerary. The app is the guide who walks it with you.
Pick a walk
Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.
Pocket your phone
Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.
Listen as you arrive
On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.
Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.
A guide who talks
Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.
The route, followed
A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.
In four languages
English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.
Or build your own
Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.
The unglamorous things
Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.
No signal needed
Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.
Picks up where you left off
Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.