Classic route
Taksaka
Jakarta → Yogyakarta · Indonesia
Taksaka in pictures
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- Distance
- 512 km
- Fastest time
- 6 h 5 min
- Average speed
- 84 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Kereta Api Indonesia
- Train
- KAI New Generation stainless-steel executive & luxury coaches
- Countries
- Indonesia
- In service since
- 1999
- Runs
- 3× daily each way
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Java’s flagship day train links the capital and the sultan’s city in six hours, skirting volcanoes beyond Cirebon and Purwokerto.
Named after a serpent king of Javanese legend, the Taksaka has been KAI’s flagship Jakarta–Yogyakarta day train since 1999 and now runs with stainless-steel New Generation stock. It clears the Cirebon coastal plain, curls through the Serayu valley beneath Slamet volcano, then skirts the Menoreh hills into the sultan’s city in just over six hours. Panoramic-window coaches join selected departures.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 17996125 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: KAI — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Jakarta’s Gambir station beside Merdeka Square
- Cirebon coastal plain
- Slamet volcano views near Purwokerto
- Serayu river valley
- Yogyakarta’s Tugu heritage quarter
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