Get Around

The city's main avenue, Jl. Slamet Riyadi has paved pedestrian paths (Citywalk) located along its sides courtesy to Mayor Rudy. On Sundays, this street is closed for traffic and becomes a Car Free Day (6 am to 9 am) for various kind of sports activities for Solo's citizens. Many hotels, restaurants, shopping malls and tourist attractions (Museum Batik Danar Hadi, Sriwedari Park, Museum Radya Pustaka) located alongside the avenue. At the end of the Avenue is the entrance (gapura) to the Alun-Alun (city square) and the royal palace complex (Keraton Kasunanan). At the end of the avenue, there is a statue of a figure Slamet Riyadi whose name immortalized as the name of the main street in Solo.

Because of its small size (44 kmsq or 17 milesq), travelling is easy within the city.Other than private cars or motorcycles, local people also travel with angkots, minibus, ojeks (motorcycles taxis), bicycles, becaks (Indonesian rickshaws, tourist friendly), and some horse-drawn carts can still be seen roaming in the city, although rare. Public transportation includes taxis (include SUV-taxis), foreigner-friendly bus (currently serves from an airport to the downtown and vice versa), all of them for very a reasonable price (bus from the airport to downtown are Rp. 7.000 or less than US$ 1, with air conditioner and scheduled stops). Car or motorcycles (or even bicycles) rental can also arrange as some hotels are also renting their bicycles, albeit limited in number. Antique horse-drawn carts or retro double-decker bus or an antique two-freights steam train can also rent for group tours, with or without tour guides and onboard live entertainment (for bus and train)