Johor Central
Decay is seasonally outdated and in retreat, thankfully, with the opening of the sprawling City Square shopping complex, Johor Bahru's latest self-renewal showpiece. A match for the glitziest of shopping malls across the City Square, it is fit to handle the smuggest shopping and coffee tastes at half-price. A sprinkling of older malls, including KOMTAR and Plaza Kotaraya, lies within walking distance, catering to the less well-heeled. Downtown chugs along like the squeaky locomotives leaving the Railway Station in this state of slow-motion tussle between the old and the new, dependable family-run coffee shops and fair-weather bankers, dingy lodges and chrome-plated hotels, humble pre-war shop-houses and swanky towers. Meanwhile, the Sri Mariamman Temple and the Johor Old Chinese Temple cling on precariously in a weakening struggle against unsympathetic commercial development.
Nightlife
Palm Bistro
T.A.M. Disc Laser Karaoke Lounge
VOR Viking Discotheque
Palm Lounge
Newsroom Cafe (The)
Attractions
Endau-Rompin National Park
Johor Art Gallery
Permas Point Shopping Centre
Stulang Laut Beach
Plaza Kotaraya
Batu Pahat Mall
Pelangi Leisure Mall
Pelangi Golf Driving Range
Sultan Ibrahim Building
ZON Shopping Complex
Sultan Abu Bakar Royal Museum
Restaurants
Restoran ZZ
House of Sundanese Food
Ocean Garden Seafood Restaurant
Salt 'n' Pepper Cafe Restaurant
Orient Express Coffee House
Palm Lounge
Palm Bistro
Sukhothai
Hotels
Causeway Inn
New York Hotel