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Evening strollers under the lit arcades of Malioboro Street

Malioboro & Yogyakarta Tours

Everything worth booking from a base on Malioboro — compared, priced and bookable in a couple of taps.

You do not need a tour to walk down Malioboro. You may well want one to eat well on it, to understand the palace at its southern end, to learn what real batik is — and certainly to reach Borobudur, Prambanan or Merapi without wasting half a day on logistics.

Everything below is booked through GetYourGuide, which means live availability, free cancellation on most options and reserve-now-pay-later on many. Prices are indicative “from” amounts in US dollars. One honest note: GetYourGuide lists only a few products devoted to Malioboro itself, so this page also draws on the best Yogyakarta city experiences that start within a short ride of the street. And one thing to check on every temple listing: whether entrance fees are included, because many low prices cover transport and guide only.

Pick by the kind of day you want

Walks and food on and around Malioboro

Evening food crawls, orientation walks and the heritage of the street itself. Short, cheap and best done on your first day.

Diners sitting on mats at a lesehan food stall on Malioboro at night Evening food walk from $15
🕒 2–3.5 hours 📍 From Central Yogyakarta (meeting point) ⭐ 5.0 (672)

Yogyakarta: Nighttime Walk and Food Tour

An evening walk through the centre of Yogyakarta with a local guide who orders for you at street stalls and small warungs, explains what you are eating and takes you down lanes you would not find alone. With several hundred reviews and a top score, it is the easiest way to get past the tourist-priced stalls and try the real thing. Check the listing for the exact meeting point and which tastings are included.

  • Street food tastings with a local guide after dark
  • The most-reviewed food tour in Yogyakarta on GetYourGuide
  • Evening is when the Malioboro area is at its liveliest
A plate of rice with gudeg, the sweet jackfruit stew of Yogyakarta Guided walk with tastings from $15
🕒 2–3.5 hours 📍 From Central Yogyakarta (meeting point) ⭐ 4.9 (494)

Yogyakarta: Guided City Walk and Food Tour

A guided walk that mixes the old city with food stops, so you learn how Yogyakarta fits together while tasting local snacks and dishes along the way. A good choice if you want orientation and eating in a single outing rather than a pure food crawl. Start times and the route vary by option, so read the listing before you book.

  • City sights and local dishes in one walk
  • Small group led by a local guide
  • Several hundred five-star reviews
Shophouses and motorbikes along Malioboro Street in the daytime Walking tour from $9
🕒 2 hours 📍 From Central Yogyakarta (meeting point) ⭐ 4.8 (141)

Yogyakarta: 2-Hour City Introduction Walking Tour

A compact introduction to the city on foot: two hours with a local guide covering the background you need — the sultanate, the layout of the old town and how to get around — before you explore on your own. One of the cheapest guided experiences in Yogyakarta and well reviewed.

  • A short, low-cost orientation walk
  • History and daily life explained by a local
  • Easy to fit in on arrival day
The green Jalan Malioboro street sign with Javanese script Heritage walking tour from $17
🕒 2.5 hours 📍 From Malioboro area (meeting point) ⭐ 5.0 (1)

Yogyakarta: Malioboro Heritage Walking Tour with Storyteller

One of the few GetYourGuide products built specifically around Malioboro Street: a storyteller-led walk past its colonial-era buildings, markets and kampung lanes. It is a recent listing with only a handful of reviews, so read the latest feedback before booking — but if the street’s history is what you came for, this is the closest match.

  • A walk devoted to Malioboro itself
  • Stories behind the buildings and side lanes
  • A newer product with few reviews so far
A box of freshly baked bakpia, the bean-filled pastry of Yogyakarta Walking tour with tastings from $17
🕒 2 hours 📍 From Malioboro area (meeting point) ⭐ 4.9 (7)

Yogyakarta: City Highlights Walking Tour with 5 Local Snack Tastings

A two-hour walk in the Malioboro area that pairs the main sights with five tastings of local snacks. Lighter than a full food tour and shorter than a half-day city tour, it suits a morning or late afternoon slot. Review numbers are still small.

  • Five local snack tastings included
  • Two-hour route through the Malioboro area
  • Small number of reviews, high score

Batik and cooking classes

Hands-on workshops: draw with hot wax and take your own batik home, or shop a market and cook a Javanese meal.

A hand applying hot wax to white cloth with a canting Hands-on class from $12
🕒 2–5 hours 📍 From Workshop in Yogyakarta ⭐ 4.9 (473)

Yogyakarta: 2-Hour Batik Making Course with Souvenir

Learn the wax-resist process from a local batik maker: sketch a motif, trace it in hot wax with a canting, dye the cloth and take the finished piece home. After two hours with a canting in your hand you will also be far better at telling hand-drawn batik from a print when you go shopping on Malioboro. Check the listing for the workshop address and whether pickup is offered.

  • Draw with hot wax using a canting, then dye your cloth
  • Take your own piece of batik home
  • The most-reviewed batik class in Yogyakarta
Stacks of folded batik cloth on a market stall in Yogyakarta Hands-on class from $13
🕒 2–3 hours 📍 From Studio in Yogyakarta ⭐ 5.0 (41)

Yogyakarta: Contemporary Batik Workshop with Natural Dyeing

A studio workshop with a more contemporary approach: you learn the traditional wax-resist steps, then dye your design with natural colours. Small groups and a very high guest score make it a good alternative when the bigger classes are full.

  • Wax-resist technique with natural dyes
  • Small-group studio setting
  • Top score from dozens of reviews
A craftsman pressing a copper stamp onto cloth to make batik cap Half-day class from $26
🕒 About 5 hours 📍 From Workshop in Yogyakarta ⭐ 5.0 (92)

Yogyakarta: Batik Painting Workshop

The long-form batik class: about five hours, which is enough to design, wax, dye and finish a more ambitious piece than the two-hour courses allow. Choose this if batik is one of your main reasons for coming to Yogyakarta.

  • A longer session with time to finish a larger piece
  • Guidance through every step of waxing and dyeing
  • Perfect score from around ninety reviews

The royal city

The Kraton and Taman Sari with a guide, or the heritage sights from the seat of a becak.

The bathing pools of Taman Sari, the Water Castle in Yogyakarta Guided walking tour from $16
🕒 1.5–4 hours 📍 From Kraton area, Yogyakarta ⭐ 4.8 (62)

Yogyakarta: Sultan’s Palace and Water Castle Guided Tour

A guided walk through the two royal sights south of Malioboro: the Kraton, where the Sultan of Yogyakarta still lives, and Taman Sari, the 18th-century pleasure garden with its bathing pools and tunnels. Both are much more rewarding with someone to explain what you are looking at. Entrance fees may be paid separately — check the option you choose.

  • The Kraton, living palace of the Sultan
  • Taman Sari’s pools and underground passages
  • A guide to explain court life and symbolism
A becak driver pedalling his cycle rickshaw along a Yogyakarta street Becak tour from $21
🕒 About 4 hours 📍 From Central Yogyakarta ⭐ 5.0 (2)

Yogyakarta: Heritage Tour with Pedicab

A half-day round of the heritage sights by becak, the cycle rickshaw of Java, with the route and price settled before you set off — which removes the bargaining and the unwanted shop stops that street-hailed rides sometimes bring. Reviews are still few, so read the most recent ones.

  • See the old city from a becak seat
  • Price fixed in advance — no haggling
  • New listing with few reviews

Temples and evenings at Prambanan

Borobudur at sunrise with a climb-up slot, Prambanan at sunset and the Ramayana Ballet.

Stupas of Borobudur above a misty plain at sunrise Full-day temple tour from $17
🕒 6–11 hours 📍 From Yogyakarta (hotel pickup) ⭐ 4.9 (2,278)

Yogyakarta: Borobudur Sunrise (Guaranteed Climb-Up) & Prambanan

The best-selling day trip from Yogyakarta: an early start for sunrise near Borobudur, a reserved slot to climb the monument, and the option to continue to the Hindu temples of Prambanan. Places on the upper levels of Borobudur are limited each day, which is why a tour that secures them is worth having. Temple entrance fees are usually extra — check what your option includes.

  • Sunrise viewpoint, then Borobudur with a temple-climb slot
  • Option to add Prambanan the same day
  • More than two thousand reviews
Bell-shaped stupas on the upper terrace of Borobudur Half-day temple tour from $25
🕒 5 hours 📍 From Yogyakarta (hotel pickup) ⭐ 4.7 (350)

Yogyakarta: Borobudur 5-Hour Tour with Climb-Up & Transfers

A half-day focused on Borobudur alone, with transport and access to the monument organised for you. It leaves the afternoon and evening free — handy if you want to be back on Malioboro for dinner.

  • Borobudur only, at a civilised hour
  • Return transfers and climb-up access arranged
  • Leaves the rest of the day free for Malioboro
The towers of Prambanan temple rising behind a lawn Afternoon & evening tour from $18
🕒 2–8 hours 📍 From Yogyakarta (hotel pickup) ⭐ 4.7 (66)

Sunset at Prambanan & Ramayana Ballet (Ticket Guaranteed)

An afternoon at Prambanan as the light softens, followed by the Ramayana Ballet performed beside the temples. Having transport both ways is the main advantage: getting back to the city late in the evening is awkward on your own.

  • Prambanan in the late-afternoon light
  • Seat at the Ramayana Ballet afterwards
  • Transport back to your hotel at night
Two dancers in costume fighting on stage in the Ramayana Ballet Evening show from $17
🕒 2–8 hours 📍 From Prambanan / Yogyakarta ⭐ 4.7 (127)

Yogyakarta: Ramayana Ballet at Prambanan

Tickets for the Ramayana Ballet, the dance drama staged next to Prambanan with a full gamelan orchestra. In the dry season it is usually performed on the open-air stage with the temples lit behind; at other times it moves indoors. Check the schedule and seat class on the listing.

  • Javanese dance drama with live gamelan
  • Open-air stage in the dry season
  • Options with or without transfer

Volcano, cave, coast and getting around

Merapi by jeep, the rope descent at Jomblang, sunset at Parangtritis, plus airport transfers and a private car for your own plan.

A red jeep with passengers on the lava fields below Mount Merapi Jeep tour from $30
🕒 About 3 hours on site 📍 From Yogyakarta (hotel pickup) ⭐ 4.7 (563)

Yogyakarta: Mount Merapi Sightseeing Jeep Tour with Pickup

A bumpy ride by open 4x4 across the slopes of Mount Merapi, one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes, visiting a house-museum of objects left by the 2010 eruption, a bunker and lava viewpoints. Hundreds of reviews make this the standard Merapi jeep product. Mornings give the clearest views.

  • Open jeep across the lava fields of the 2010 eruption
  • Stops at a small museum, a bunker and viewpoints
  • Sunrise departures available
Visitors standing in beams of sunlight inside Jomblang Cave Full-day adventure from $17
🕒 About 10 hours 📍 From Yogyakarta (hotel pickup) ⭐ 4.9 (1,071)

Yogyakarta: Jomblang Cave and Pindul Cave Adventure Trip

A full day in the Gunungkidul karst south-east of the city: you are lowered by rope into the Jomblang sinkhole, walk through a tunnel to the famous midday light beam, then float along the underground river at Pindul. Check on the listing whether cave entrance fees are included in the option you choose.

  • Rope descent into Jomblang and the “light of heaven”
  • Float through Pindul Cave on an inner tube
  • More than a thousand reviews
A horse cart on the wide dark sand of Parangtritis Beach Afternoon tour from $32
🕒 About 4 hours 📍 From Yogyakarta (hotel pickup)

Yogyakarta: Parangtritis Beach Sunset Tour with Transfer

A simple afternoon run to Parangtritis, the black-sand beach south of the city that forms the seaward end of Yogyakarta’s sacred axis. This is a new listing with no reviews at the time of writing, so treat it as a convenient transfer-with-driver rather than a proven tour.

  • Sunset on the Indian Ocean coast
  • Return transfer from the city
  • New product without reviews yet
The white façade of Yogyakarta Tugu railway station Private transfer from $12
🕒 Around 1–1.5 hours 📍 From Yogyakarta International Airport (YIA) or your hotel ⭐ 4.9 (133)

Yogyakarta Airport: Private Transfer to/from Hotels

A pre-booked private car between Yogyakarta International Airport and hotels in the city, including those around Malioboro. The airport is a long way out, so this is the comfortable alternative to the airport train when you have luggage, arrive late or travel as a family.

  • Door-to-door between YIA and your hotel
  • Driver meets you at arrivals
  • More than a hundred reviews
The white Tugu monument at a road junction in Yogyakarta Private car with driver from $39 per group
🕒 10 hours 📍 From Yogyakarta (hotel pickup) ⭐ 5.0 (9)

Yogyakarta: Private Car Hire with Driver for 10 Hours

A car and driver for ten hours, priced per vehicle. Use it to build your own day — Borobudur and Merapi, Prambanan and Ratu Boko, or the south coast — without joining a group. Entrance fees, and sometimes fuel and parking, are extra; the listing sets out what is covered.

  • Your own route and timing
  • Price per car, not per person
  • Good for combining several day-trip sights
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Every Malioboro and Yogyakarta tour we recommend

Twenty experiences we would happily book ourselves, from a two-hour walk to a private driver for your own route.

Diners sitting on mats at a lesehan food stall on Malioboro at night Evening food walk from $15
🕒 2–3.5 hours 📍 From Central Yogyakarta (meeting point) ⭐ 5.0 (672)

Yogyakarta: Nighttime Walk and Food Tour

An evening walk through the centre of Yogyakarta with a local guide who orders for you at street stalls and small warungs, explains what you are eating and takes you down lanes you would not find alone. With several hundred reviews and a top score, it is the easiest way to get past the tourist-priced stalls and try the real thing. Check the listing for the exact meeting point and which tastings are included.

  • Street food tastings with a local guide after dark
  • The most-reviewed food tour in Yogyakarta on GetYourGuide
  • Evening is when the Malioboro area is at its liveliest
A hand applying hot wax to white cloth with a canting Hands-on class from $12
🕒 2–5 hours 📍 From Workshop in Yogyakarta ⭐ 4.9 (473)

Yogyakarta: 2-Hour Batik Making Course with Souvenir

Learn the wax-resist process from a local batik maker: sketch a motif, trace it in hot wax with a canting, dye the cloth and take the finished piece home. After two hours with a canting in your hand you will also be far better at telling hand-drawn batik from a print when you go shopping on Malioboro. Check the listing for the workshop address and whether pickup is offered.

  • Draw with hot wax using a canting, then dye your cloth
  • Take your own piece of batik home
  • The most-reviewed batik class in Yogyakarta
Stupas of Borobudur above a misty plain at sunrise Full-day temple tour from $17
🕒 6–11 hours 📍 From Yogyakarta (hotel pickup) ⭐ 4.9 (2,278)

Yogyakarta: Borobudur Sunrise (Guaranteed Climb-Up) & Prambanan

The best-selling day trip from Yogyakarta: an early start for sunrise near Borobudur, a reserved slot to climb the monument, and the option to continue to the Hindu temples of Prambanan. Places on the upper levels of Borobudur are limited each day, which is why a tour that secures them is worth having. Temple entrance fees are usually extra — check what your option includes.

  • Sunrise viewpoint, then Borobudur with a temple-climb slot
  • Option to add Prambanan the same day
  • More than two thousand reviews
A plate of rice with gudeg, the sweet jackfruit stew of Yogyakarta Guided walk with tastings from $15
🕒 2–3.5 hours 📍 From Central Yogyakarta (meeting point) ⭐ 4.9 (494)

Yogyakarta: Guided City Walk and Food Tour

A guided walk that mixes the old city with food stops, so you learn how Yogyakarta fits together while tasting local snacks and dishes along the way. A good choice if you want orientation and eating in a single outing rather than a pure food crawl. Start times and the route vary by option, so read the listing before you book.

  • City sights and local dishes in one walk
  • Small group led by a local guide
  • Several hundred five-star reviews
The bathing pools of Taman Sari, the Water Castle in Yogyakarta Guided walking tour from $16
🕒 1.5–4 hours 📍 From Kraton area, Yogyakarta ⭐ 4.8 (62)

Yogyakarta: Sultan’s Palace and Water Castle Guided Tour

A guided walk through the two royal sights south of Malioboro: the Kraton, where the Sultan of Yogyakarta still lives, and Taman Sari, the 18th-century pleasure garden with its bathing pools and tunnels. Both are much more rewarding with someone to explain what you are looking at. Entrance fees may be paid separately — check the option you choose.

  • The Kraton, living palace of the Sultan
  • Taman Sari’s pools and underground passages
  • A guide to explain court life and symbolism
Shophouses and motorbikes along Malioboro Street in the daytime Walking tour from $9
🕒 2 hours 📍 From Central Yogyakarta (meeting point) ⭐ 4.8 (141)

Yogyakarta: 2-Hour City Introduction Walking Tour

A compact introduction to the city on foot: two hours with a local guide covering the background you need — the sultanate, the layout of the old town and how to get around — before you explore on your own. One of the cheapest guided experiences in Yogyakarta and well reviewed.

  • A short, low-cost orientation walk
  • History and daily life explained by a local
  • Easy to fit in on arrival day
A red jeep with passengers on the lava fields below Mount Merapi Jeep tour from $30
🕒 About 3 hours on site 📍 From Yogyakarta (hotel pickup) ⭐ 4.7 (563)

Yogyakarta: Mount Merapi Sightseeing Jeep Tour with Pickup

A bumpy ride by open 4x4 across the slopes of Mount Merapi, one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes, visiting a house-museum of objects left by the 2010 eruption, a bunker and lava viewpoints. Hundreds of reviews make this the standard Merapi jeep product. Mornings give the clearest views.

  • Open jeep across the lava fields of the 2010 eruption
  • Stops at a small museum, a bunker and viewpoints
  • Sunrise departures available
Visitors standing in beams of sunlight inside Jomblang Cave Full-day adventure from $17
🕒 About 10 hours 📍 From Yogyakarta (hotel pickup) ⭐ 4.9 (1,071)

Yogyakarta: Jomblang Cave and Pindul Cave Adventure Trip

A full day in the Gunungkidul karst south-east of the city: you are lowered by rope into the Jomblang sinkhole, walk through a tunnel to the famous midday light beam, then float along the underground river at Pindul. Check on the listing whether cave entrance fees are included in the option you choose.

  • Rope descent into Jomblang and the “light of heaven”
  • Float through Pindul Cave on an inner tube
  • More than a thousand reviews
A craftsman pressing a copper stamp onto cloth to make batik cap Half-day class from $26
🕒 About 5 hours 📍 From Workshop in Yogyakarta ⭐ 5.0 (92)

Yogyakarta: Batik Painting Workshop

The long-form batik class: about five hours, which is enough to design, wax, dye and finish a more ambitious piece than the two-hour courses allow. Choose this if batik is one of your main reasons for coming to Yogyakarta.

  • A longer session with time to finish a larger piece
  • Guidance through every step of waxing and dyeing
  • Perfect score from around ninety reviews
Two dancers in costume fighting on stage in the Ramayana Ballet Evening show from $17
🕒 2–8 hours 📍 From Prambanan / Yogyakarta ⭐ 4.7 (127)

Yogyakarta: Ramayana Ballet at Prambanan

Tickets for the Ramayana Ballet, the dance drama staged next to Prambanan with a full gamelan orchestra. In the dry season it is usually performed on the open-air stage with the temples lit behind; at other times it moves indoors. Check the schedule and seat class on the listing.

  • Javanese dance drama with live gamelan
  • Open-air stage in the dry season
  • Options with or without transfer
The towers of Prambanan temple rising behind a lawn Afternoon & evening tour from $18
🕒 2–8 hours 📍 From Yogyakarta (hotel pickup) ⭐ 4.7 (66)

Sunset at Prambanan & Ramayana Ballet (Ticket Guaranteed)

An afternoon at Prambanan as the light softens, followed by the Ramayana Ballet performed beside the temples. Having transport both ways is the main advantage: getting back to the city late in the evening is awkward on your own.

  • Prambanan in the late-afternoon light
  • Seat at the Ramayana Ballet afterwards
  • Transport back to your hotel at night
Bell-shaped stupas on the upper terrace of Borobudur Half-day temple tour from $25
🕒 5 hours 📍 From Yogyakarta (hotel pickup) ⭐ 4.7 (350)

Yogyakarta: Borobudur 5-Hour Tour with Climb-Up & Transfers

A half-day focused on Borobudur alone, with transport and access to the monument organised for you. It leaves the afternoon and evening free — handy if you want to be back on Malioboro for dinner.

  • Borobudur only, at a civilised hour
  • Return transfers and climb-up access arranged
  • Leaves the rest of the day free for Malioboro
Stacks of folded batik cloth on a market stall in Yogyakarta Hands-on class from $13
🕒 2–3 hours 📍 From Studio in Yogyakarta ⭐ 5.0 (41)

Yogyakarta: Contemporary Batik Workshop with Natural Dyeing

A studio workshop with a more contemporary approach: you learn the traditional wax-resist steps, then dye your design with natural colours. Small groups and a very high guest score make it a good alternative when the bigger classes are full.

  • Wax-resist technique with natural dyes
  • Small-group studio setting
  • Top score from dozens of reviews
A box of freshly baked bakpia, the bean-filled pastry of Yogyakarta Walking tour with tastings from $17
🕒 2 hours 📍 From Malioboro area (meeting point) ⭐ 4.9 (7)

Yogyakarta: City Highlights Walking Tour with 5 Local Snack Tastings

A two-hour walk in the Malioboro area that pairs the main sights with five tastings of local snacks. Lighter than a full food tour and shorter than a half-day city tour, it suits a morning or late afternoon slot. Review numbers are still small.

  • Five local snack tastings included
  • Two-hour route through the Malioboro area
  • Small number of reviews, high score
The green Jalan Malioboro street sign with Javanese script Heritage walking tour from $17
🕒 2.5 hours 📍 From Malioboro area (meeting point) ⭐ 5.0 (1)

Yogyakarta: Malioboro Heritage Walking Tour with Storyteller

One of the few GetYourGuide products built specifically around Malioboro Street: a storyteller-led walk past its colonial-era buildings, markets and kampung lanes. It is a recent listing with only a handful of reviews, so read the latest feedback before booking — but if the street’s history is what you came for, this is the closest match.

  • A walk devoted to Malioboro itself
  • Stories behind the buildings and side lanes
  • A newer product with few reviews so far
A becak driver pedalling his cycle rickshaw along a Yogyakarta street Becak tour from $21
🕒 About 4 hours 📍 From Central Yogyakarta ⭐ 5.0 (2)

Yogyakarta: Heritage Tour with Pedicab

A half-day round of the heritage sights by becak, the cycle rickshaw of Java, with the route and price settled before you set off — which removes the bargaining and the unwanted shop stops that street-hailed rides sometimes bring. Reviews are still few, so read the most recent ones.

  • See the old city from a becak seat
  • Price fixed in advance — no haggling
  • New listing with few reviews
A horse cart on the wide dark sand of Parangtritis Beach Afternoon tour from $32
🕒 About 4 hours 📍 From Yogyakarta (hotel pickup)

Yogyakarta: Parangtritis Beach Sunset Tour with Transfer

A simple afternoon run to Parangtritis, the black-sand beach south of the city that forms the seaward end of Yogyakarta’s sacred axis. This is a new listing with no reviews at the time of writing, so treat it as a convenient transfer-with-driver rather than a proven tour.

  • Sunset on the Indian Ocean coast
  • Return transfer from the city
  • New product without reviews yet
The white façade of Yogyakarta Tugu railway station Private transfer from $12
🕒 Around 1–1.5 hours 📍 From Yogyakarta International Airport (YIA) or your hotel ⭐ 4.9 (133)

Yogyakarta Airport: Private Transfer to/from Hotels

A pre-booked private car between Yogyakarta International Airport and hotels in the city, including those around Malioboro. The airport is a long way out, so this is the comfortable alternative to the airport train when you have luggage, arrive late or travel as a family.

  • Door-to-door between YIA and your hotel
  • Driver meets you at arrivals
  • More than a hundred reviews
The white Tugu monument at a road junction in Yogyakarta Private car with driver from $39 per group
🕒 10 hours 📍 From Yogyakarta (hotel pickup) ⭐ 5.0 (9)

Yogyakarta: Private Car Hire with Driver for 10 Hours

A car and driver for ten hours, priced per vehicle. Use it to build your own day — Borobudur and Merapi, Prambanan and Ratu Boko, or the south coast — without joining a group. Entrance fees, and sometimes fuel and parking, are extra; the listing sets out what is covered.

  • Your own route and timing
  • Price per car, not per person
  • Good for combining several day-trip sights
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Compare the best-rated food walks, batik workshops, palace tours and temple day trips from Yogyakarta, and book in a couple of taps.

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Booking questions

Frequently asked questions

Are there tours of Malioboro Street itself?

A few: a heritage walk with a storyteller and a snack-tasting walk are built around the street, and the city’s food and orientation walks pass through the area. Coverage is thin compared with the temples, so we also list the best nearby city experiences.

Do tours pick up from hotels on Malioboro?

Day trips to the temples, Merapi and Jomblang almost always include pickup from central hotels. Because of the evening traffic closure, drivers may ask to meet you at a side street. Walking and food tours use a meeting point instead.

Are temple entrance fees included?

Often not. Borobudur and Prambanan tickets — and the extra ticket to climb Borobudur — are frequently paid on the day. Each listing spells out what is included; read it before confirming.

Which tour is the best value?

In the city, the night walk and food tour and the two-hour batik class both have hundreds of reviews at low prices. For day trips, the Borobudur sunrise and Prambanan tour has more than two thousand reviews.

Can I book on the day?

For walks and classes, often yes. For Borobudur climb-up slots and Jomblang Cave, places are capped, so book a few days ahead — more in July, August and holiday weeks.