Parks and the outdoors in Johor Bahru

32 parks, gardens, beaches and walks in and around Johor Bahru.

Ranked with the travel guide's picks and well-known places first.

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AEON Mall Bandar Dato' Onn
Shopping mall with beer garden and small outdoor gym facilities. This is the major and largest mall in the northern part of the city.
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AEON Tebrau City
Almost half of the mall's three-level floor area is occupied by the AEON hypermarket (on all the 3 levels). There are numerous international fashion shops like Giordano, MNG, Esprit, Dorothy Perkins. It is at the junction of Tebrau Highway (also known as Jalan Pandan) and Jalan Desa Tebrau. It consists of Japanese-themed section called Japan Village featuring many Japanese restaurants and shops and Fanpekka Theme Park for children.
Sun-Thu 10AM-10PM, Fri Sat 10AM-11PM
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Austin Heights Water and Adventure Park
Water Park Big Splash, Adventure Park, Jump Street Austin Heights, Drift in Austin, Skating Rink Austin Heights.
Water park 10AM-7PM, adventure park 10AM-6PM, sports & leisure park 10AM-10PMWater park RM88, adventure park RM88, jump street RM228, skating rink RM228, drift RM228
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Danga Bay
Teluk Danga
It is a waterfront development with residential properties, commercial buildings and recreational facilities. The area features the Country Garden Danga Bay and Danga Bay Convention Centre. To get there from the city centre, take any of the very frequent bus (one-way fare RM1.60 or 1.70) that goes to Bukit Indah/Kulai/Selesa Jaya from JB Sentral Terminal. You can take a tourist tram along the coastline area (RM5 per person, free for children below 3 years old).
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Food Generation JB (FGJB)
新食代, Connoisseur
Modern food court adjacent to the Johor Bahru border checkpoint, with two separate covered areas (featuring the various food stalls) and a large alfresco beer garden seating area with a rotating fan in the middle of the garden, a musical stage at the rear of the garden, palm trees surrounding the garden seating area. Entrance contains a refurbished relic of a white bus.
5PM-midnight
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Gaya Community Park
Park with big circular amphitheater and children's playgrounds.
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MBJB City Forest
Hutan Bandar MBJB
13-hectare recreational park. Maintained by the municipality, this gem of a public recreational park contains seven lakes surrounded by tropical rain forest. There is a big fountain at the north end of the southernmost lake. Within the park are jogging/hiking tracks, wooden bridges and platforms, a children's playground, climbing wall, skatepark, parkour ark and an open-air water park. There is also an orchid park with many different species of orchids. There is a car park just beyond the park's entrance on Jalan Tasek Utara. There is a food court beside the car park.
7AM-11PMFree
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Merdeka Park
Taman Merdeka
Public park surrounding a large lake with pavilions, an open-air theatre, rock sculptures, an independence monument, 2 bridges, two twin 2-storey white buildings, cannons and a clock tower. There is also a paid-per-entry shared gym within the park.
7AM-7PMFree
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Mount Austin Lake
Tasik Mount Austin
Lake surrounded by high-rise residential buildings, ideal for relaxing and fishing.
Free
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Pandan Lake Park
Laman Tasik Pandan
A park with lake in its centre. It has a food court around its vicinity.
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Rock Yard
Wall climbing inside the forest, divided into the low wall and high wall.
Free
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Senibong Cove
Teluk Senibong
Several high quality establishments offering a variety of local and international food – sensitive to all diets – provide some of JB’s most prominent food right on the marina’s edge of Senibong Cove, at the end of the Lunchu River. F&B establishments include: Vanilla Bean, Goldman, Yew's Café, Harvests Bar & Grill, Delicious 8, Bora Bora, Bierhaus, My Liberica, Paik's Restaurant, La Olla, Chang 9, Aristo Gastrobar. The waterfront community also features Cani Hair Studio and Granville Groceries minimart.
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Seri Austin Lake
Urban lake surrounded by residential area, equipped with pedestrian around it.
Free
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Setia Tropika Town Park
Town in the middle of a residential area with lake at its centre, equipped with children playground and picnic site.
Free
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Stulang Beach
Pantai Stulang
This small stretch of beach facing the Johor Strait is a great relaxing place at night, which is also near to many eateries establishment which all are within walking distance.
Free
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Taman Pelangi Indah Lake and Park
Tasik dan Taman Taman Pelangi Indah
A park which consists of 4 different lakes, surrounded by forest vegetation and walking path.
Free
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Tanjung Kupang Memorial Park
Memorial Peringatan Tragedi Tanjung Kupang
This memorial was erected by the Johor state government in memory of the 100 passengers and crew members killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 (MH653) Boeing 737 crashed at Tanjung Kupang (about 20 km west of Johor Bahru) on the evening of 4 December 1977. The names and nationalities of all the 100 victims are inscribed on a less than two-meter-high wall clad with shiny, black stone.
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Today's Mall
The only mall in Ulu Tiram area of Johor Bahru. It consists of the Tiram Indoor Water Park and the Tiram Bowl.
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Toppen Shopping Centre
Shopping mall, adjacent to IKEA Tebrau. It features The Topp, located at its top floor which has big screen for free movie screening, small water park and various sport facilities, such as ball, skate, and climbing wall. It also consists of The Pantheon Toppen, Malaysia's largest e-sport and gaming centre.
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Adda Heights Park
An urban park with walking path encircling a lake.
Free
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Austin Perdana Park
Park.
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Country Garden Central Park
Park.
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Dato Onn Village Recreational Area
Kawasan Rekreasi Kampung Dato Onn
Park.
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Dinosaur Alive Water Theme Park
Water park at the rooftop of a shopping mall.
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Grand Straits Garden Seafood Restaurant
Seafood restaurant.
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La Stella Water Theme Park
Water park.
9AM-6PMAdult RM10.60-25.00, children RM8.50-12.00
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Setia Indah Park
Park.
Free
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Setia Tropika Linear Park
An urban park with walking path and children's playground.
Free
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Stellar Walk
星海广场
Shopping mall with focus on education.
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Taman Eko Flora Urban Park
Park.
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Tiram Indoor Water Park
Indoor water park.
10:30AM-10PMAdult RM14.70, children RM20.00
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Tristan Park
Dirt biking.

Listings from the Wikivoyage guide to Johor Bahru (CC BY-SA 4.0).