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365713E Malioboro street lined with stores of batik, handycraft, and fashion products Jalan Malioboro (English: Malioboro Street) is a major shopping street in Yogyak arta, Indonesia; the name is also used more generally for the neighborhood aroun d the street. It lies north-south axis in the line between Yogyakarta Kraton and Mount Merapi. This is in itself is significant to many of the local population, the north south orientation between the palace and the volcano being of importa nce. The street is the centre of Yogyakarta's largest tourist district surrounded wit h many hotels and restaurants nearby. Sidewalks on both sides of the street are crowded with small stalls selling a variety of goods. In the evening several ope n-air streetside restaurants, called lesehan, operate along the street. Less obv ious to the tourist, but more for the local population, side streets, lanes and structures that lead on to Malioboro are as important as the street itself. History Jalan Malioboro (ca.1900-40) Jalan Malioboro at night The street was for many years two-way, but by the 1980s had become one way only, from the railway line (where it starts) to the south - to Beringharjo markets, where it ends. The largest, oldest Dutch era hotel, Hotel Garuda, is located on the street's northern end, on the eastern side adjacent to the railway line. It has the former Dutch era Prime Minister's complex, the kepatihan, on the eastern side. For many years in the 1980s and later, a cigarette advertisement was placed on t he first building south of the railway line - or effectively the last building o n Malioboro, which advertised Marlboro cigarettes, no doubt appealing to locals and foreigners who would see a pun with name of the street with a foreign produc t being advertised. It does not reach the walls or grounds of the Yogyakarta palace, as Malioboro ce ases in name adjacent to the very large market Beringharjo (on the eastern side as well). From this point the street changes name to Jalan Ahmad Yani (Ahmad Yan i Street) and has the former Governors residence on the western side, and the ol d Dutch Fort Vredeburg on the eastern side. References Suyenga, Joan A stroll down Yogyakarta's 'Main Street', pp.165-167 of Oey, E ric (1994) Java 2nd edition Periplus Editions ISBN 962-593-004-3 Turner, Peter (1997). Java (1st edition). Melbourne: Lonely Planet. pp. 215 21 6. ISBN 0-86442-314-4. External links Media related to Jalan Malioboro, Yogyakarta at Wikimedia Commons (Indonesian) The dagadu shop (on Malioboro) has its version of the history a t its website.