Kajen

Kajen is a city in Pekalongan.

Understand

Climate

Kajen has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with moderate rainfall from June to September and heavy to very heavy rainfall from October to May.

Get in

By bus

• 1 Kajen Bus Terminal. 

See

• 1 Adipura Kajen Monument. 
• 2 Kajen Square (Alun-alun Kajen). (updated Sep 2023)
• 3 Kajen City Forest. (updated Sep 2023)

Do

• Dadi Kajen Park. Hangout or do some exercise in this public area. (updated Sep 2023)

Buy

Traditional market

• 1 Kajen Market. the largest traditional and semi-modern market in Kajen city. 
• Rindu Semilir Market. traditional snack market. 
• Kajen Animal Market. A market to trade livestocks . 

Others

You can buy orchid flowers from orchid farmers that scattered throughout the city.

Eat

• Tauto - A soto with sweet tauco seasoning (fermented soybeans) as flavoring. This dish made from vermicelli, sauce, meat, boiled eggs and chips topped with fried onions and celery leaves.
• Megono - A dish made from sliced young jackfruit with coconut chili sauce. It tastes savory and spicy, usually served hot with additional side dishes such as stink bean, fried fish or fried chicken.
• Garang asem - A soupy dish made from offal and beef/buffalo meat mixed in a sour and spicy sauce.
• Pindang tetel - A soupy dish containing beef trimmings and sliced spring onions with pindang spices mixed with kluwek.
• Iwak panggang - A smoked sea fish and often found at Kajen Market. It is can accompanied with chili sauce, cracked, vegetables, nor fritters.
• Lontong lemprak - Boiled lontong served using the lemprak method. Chicken meat with thick sauce.
• Kluban - A food made from various kinds of vegetables such as long beans, bean sprouts, kale, spinach and cabbage then sprinkled with grated coconut.
• Keripik tahu - Chips that made from tofu, seasoned with special spices and then fried until dry and crispy.
• Growol - Traditional snack made from cassava. This food is also often used as a substitute for rice, especially for those on a diet because this food is low sugar.

Cope

Hospital

• 1 Kajen Regional General Hospital.  

Religious services

Mosques

• 2 Al-Muhtaram Kajen Great Mosque. 
• 3 Al-Khuzaemah Kajen Great Mosque. 
• 4 Jami' Kajen Mosque. 
• 5 As-salam Muhammadiyah Kajen Mosque. 
• 6 Nahdlatul Ulama Muhajirin Kajen Mosque. 
• 7 Al-Muttaqin Mosque. 
• 8 Al-Ikhlas Kajen Mosque. 
• 9 At-Taqwa Kajen Mosque. 

Churches

• 10 Eben Haezer Kajen GPdI Church. 

Go next

To the south, Linggoasri village, where you can do outdoor recreation in nature such as hiking, caving, and rafting.