Arcades in Jakarta

Arcades are pure joy per dollar. Jakarta, Jakarta has 15 mapped right now. That's 15 arcades mapped around Jakarta. Machine condition varies wildly between venues, so the one with the best-maintained cabinets wins regardless of size. Off-peak hours mean shorter waits on the good machines and your pick of the racing seats.

This guide covers every arcade we could verify in and around Jakarta (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Timezone and Loewi Billiard, plus Fun World. If an arcade's missing from Jakarta's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Jakarta arcade lineup

15 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Jakarta

3 of the 15 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — arcades keep long hours, so the listed times are usually good.

The Jakarta arcade run

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Timezone, Loewi Billiard, Fun World, Timezone, Fun World, Timezone, Fantasi Kingdom, and Game Station. That's 15 stops on the Jakarta arcade run. 7 more are listed below.

Arcade tips for Jakarta

A few things worth knowing before you work through Jakarta's arcades:

• Test the controls before committing at Timezone. Joysticks drift, buttons stick, guns misalign. One test credit saves a wasted game.
• The classics are cheapest at Loewi Billiard. Pac-Man, Galaga, the old cabinets — usually the lowest price per play and still the most fun per minute.
• Bring ear protection for kids. Arcades are loud. Little ears appreciate plugs, and you'll enjoy it more too.
• Save your high-score photo. Take the photo. High scores are ephemeral and the bragging rights are forever.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Jakarta — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new arcade in Jakarta can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 15 that's closed, or a great arcade we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

We don't list machine lineups — they change too often. What we list is the where: real venues, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 15 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.