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Things to do in Yogyakarta
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Sightlore has 36 places to explore in Yogyakarta, and 15 of them come with a 60-second story in 5 languages. Point your camera at a landmark to learn its name and story, and earn points and badges at the places you actually visit.
Yogyakarta's must-sees
The city's most important places. In the app you see how many you've visited and earn a badge when you've seen them all.
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Tugu Yogyakarta
Tugu Yogyakarta is an important historical pillar landmark in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Tugu means monument, which is usually built as a symbol of an area conceptualising characteristics of that region.
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Sari Temple
The Sari Temple is an 8th-century Buddhist temple located at Dusun Bendan, Tirtomartani village, Kalasan, Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is located about 130 meters (430 ft) northeast of the Kalasan temple.
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Ratu Boko Temple
Ratu Boko or Ratu Boko Palace is an archaeological site in Java. Ratu Boko is located on a plateau, about three kilometres south of Prambanan temple complex in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
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Plaosan temple
Candi Plaosan, also known as the Plaosan Complex, is one of the Buddhist temples located in Bugisan village, Prambanan district, Klaten Regency, Central Java, Indonesia, about 1 kilometre to the northeast of the renowned Hindu Prambanan Temple.
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Sonobudoyo Museum
The Sonobudoyo Museum is a Javanese history and culture museum and library in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The museum contains the most complete collection of Javanese artifacts, after the National Museum in Jakarta.
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Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat
The Royal Palace of Yogyakarta is a palace complex in the city of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. It is the seat of the reigning Sultan of Yogyakarta and his family.
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Prambanan Temple
Prambanan is a 9th-century Hindu temple compound in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, in southern Java, Indonesia, dedicated to the Trimūrti, the expression of God as the Creator (Brahma), the Preserver (Vishnu), and the Destroyer (Shiva).
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Borobudur Temple
Borobudur, also transcribed Barabudur, is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang Regency, near the town of Muntilan, northwest of the city of Yogyakarta, in Central Java, Indonesia.
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Pawon
Pawon is a Buddhist temple in Central Java, Indonesia. Built during the Sailendra dynasty, it is a part of the Borobudur Temple Compounds which consists of three temples located on the same axis; Borobudur, Pawon, and Mendut.
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Malioboro Street
Jalan Malioboro is a major shopping street in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the name is also used more generally for the neighborhood around the street. It lies north–south axis in the line between Yogyakarta Kraton and Mount Merapi.
Discovery routes in Yogyakarta
Visit the stops in any order and tap "Check in" at each one; finish the route to earn points and its own badge.
Yogyakarta: Tugu, Malioboro, Kraton and Taman Sari
From Tugu Yogyakarta along Malioboro Street to Fort Vredeburg, the Sonobudoyo Museum and the Kauman Great Mosque; then the Kraton and Taman Sari.
Temples from Borobudur to Prambanan
From Borobudur to the Pawon and Mendut temples; then the Kalasan and Sari temples, Prambanan, Plaosan Temple and Ratu Boko.
Places to visit
Historic sites
Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat
The Royal Palace of Yogyakarta is a palace complex in the city of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. It is the seat of the reigning Sultan of Yogyakarta and his family.
Taman Sari
Taman Sari Water Castle, also known as Taman Sari, is the site of a former royal garden of the Sultanate of Yogyakarta. It is located about 2 km south within the grounds of the Kraton, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Pawon
Pawon is a Buddhist temple in Central Java, Indonesia. Built during the Sailendra dynasty, it is a part of the Borobudur Temple Compounds which consists of three temples located on the same axis; Borobudur, Pawon, and Mendut.
Kalasan Temple
Kalasan, also known as Candi Kalibening, is an 8th-century Buddhist temple in Java, Indonesia.
Sari Temple
The Sari Temple is an 8th-century Buddhist temple located at Dusun Bendan, Tirtomartani village, Kalasan, Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is located about 130 meters (430 ft) northeast of the Kalasan temple.
Plaosan temple
Candi Plaosan, also known as the Plaosan Complex, is one of the Buddhist temples located in Bugisan village, Prambanan district, Klaten Regency, Central Java, Indonesia, about 1 kilometre to the northeast of the renowned Hindu Prambanan Temple.
Ratu Boko Temple
Ratu Boko or Ratu Boko Palace is an archaeological site in Java. Ratu Boko is located on a plateau, about three kilometres south of Prambanan temple complex in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Banyunibo Temple
Banyunibo is a 9th-century Buddhist temple located in Cepit hamlet, Bokoharjo village, Prambanan, Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Barong Temple
Barong temple is a 9th-century Hindu candi (temple) located approximately 800 meters east-southeast from Ratu Boko compound.
Gebang Temple
Gebang is an 8th-century Hindu temple located on the outskirts of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The temple is located at Gebang hamlet, Wedomartani village, Ngemplak, Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta.
Kedulan Temple
Kedulan temple is the ruin of a 9th-century Hindu candi located not far from Sambisari temple. The temple is in Tirtomartani village, Kalasan subdistrict, Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Kimpulan Temple
Kimpulan is a 9th to 10th century Hindu temple located in the area of Islamic University of Indonesia (UII) library in Kaliurang road, Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Klodangan Temple
Archaeological site with remains of a stone structure in Berbah, Sleman, found on 3 July 1998.
Sambisari Temple
Sambisari is a 9th-century Hindu temple located at Sambisari hamlet, Purwomartani, Kalasan, Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The temple was buried about five metres underground.
Museums
Fort Vredeburg
Fort Vredeburg Museum was a former colonial fortress located in the city of Yogyakarta, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Sonobudoyo Museum
The Sonobudoyo Museum is a Javanese history and culture museum and library in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The museum contains the most complete collection of Javanese artifacts, after the National Museum in Jakarta.
Affandi Museum
The Affandi Museum is a museum located in Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Museum Tani Jawa Indonesia
The Javanese Farmers Museum is a small museum located in the tourist village of Candran, in Kebon Agung, Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta. The museum is instrumental in the region.
Dharma Wiratama Museum
Dharma Wiratama Museum, officially the Dharma Wiratama Central Army Museum is a military museum centred on the history of the Indonesian Army from its inception in 1945 up through the coup of 30 September 1965 and Indonesian peacekeeping missions.
Dirgantara Mandala Museum
Dirgantara Mandala Museum, officially known as the Central Museum of the Indonesian Air Force "Dirgantara Mandala", is a museum of the history of the Indonesian Air Force.
Jogja National Museum
Jogja National Museum (JNM) is a contemporary art museum in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Ullen Sentalu Museum
The Ullen Sentalu Museum is a Javanese culture and art museum located in Kaliurang highland, Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Monument Yogya Kembali
Monumen Yogya Kembali, known colloquially as Monjali, is a pyramid-shaped museum dedicated to the Indonesian National Revolution located in the Ngaglik sub-district, Sleman, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Places of worship
Kauman Great Mosque
Kauman Great Mosque, approximate English translation of Javanese Mesjid Gedhe Kauman, is a Great Mosque of the Yogyakarta Sultanate in Java, Indonesia. It is located to the west of the North Alun-alun (public square) of Yogyakarta Kraton.
Borobudur Temple
Borobudur, also transcribed Barabudur, is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang Regency, near the town of Muntilan, northwest of the city of Yogyakarta, in Central Java, Indonesia.
Mendut Temple
Mendut is a ninth-century Buddhist temple, located in Mendut village, Mungkid sub-district, Magelang Regency, Central Java, Indonesia.
Prambanan Temple
Prambanan is a 9th-century Hindu temple compound in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, in southern Java, Indonesia, dedicated to the Trimūrti, the expression of God as the Creator (Brahma), the Preserver (Vishnu), and the Destroyer (Shiva).
Ganjuran Church
The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, also known as the Ganjuran Church (Gereja Ganjuran), is a Roman Catholic church located in Ganjuran, Bantul, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Javanese Christian Church of Pakem Kertodadi
Church of the Javanese Christian Church synod on Kaliurang road, Sleman.
Kotagede Mataram Great Mosque
The Great Mosque of Mataram Kotagede is a mosque located in the historic neighborhood of Kotagede in southern Java, Indonesia.
Monuments
Tugu Yogyakarta
Tugu Yogyakarta is an important historical pillar landmark in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Tugu means monument, which is usually built as a symbol of an area conceptualising characteristics of that region.
Kusumanegara Heroes' Cemetery
Kusumanegara Heroes' Cemetery is a cemetery located in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is the final resting place of five National Heroes of Indonesia.
Nature
Jomblang Cave
Vertical collapse-doline cave in Gunungkidul, formed when the ground and its vegetation sank; a tourist site.
Merapi
Mount Merapi is an active stratovolcano located on the border between the province of Central Java and the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Parangtritis Beach
Parangtritis Beach is a tourist beach on the southern coast of Java, in the Bantul Regency within the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. There is a road to the area which is about 30 km (19 miles) south of the city of Yogyakarta.
Other
Malioboro Street
Jalan Malioboro is a major shopping street in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the name is also used more generally for the neighborhood around the street. It lies north–south axis in the line between Yogyakarta Kraton and Mount Merapi.
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