Jakarta to Cepu train

Trains from Jakarta to Cepu start at €65.24 and take 6h 21m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Jakarta to Cepu starts at €65.24 and takes 6h 21m door to door, run by 1 operator over 554 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked 23 September 2026Priced for 7 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 6h 21mDoor to door
  • 4h 14mMoving
  • €65.24 to €182.39From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 2Per day
  • 22.5 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 7 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€65.24 to €182.39 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Departure times on this route

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €169.74Thu24
  2. about €182.39Fri25
  3. about €128.49Sat26
  4. about €127.94Sun27
  5. about €104.84Mon28
  6. about €116.39Tue29
  7. about €83.39Wed30
  8. about €120.79Thu1
  9. about €93.29Fri2
  10. about €96.59Sat3
  11. about €100.44Sun4
  12. about €89.99Mon5
  13. about €79.54Tue6
  14. about €65.24Wed7

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 7 October 2026

Cheapest€65.24
  1. KAI KA769007:303h 1m10:31Jakarta Kota railway stationSemarang Gudang railway station
  2. KAI KA856411:541h 13m13:07Semarang Gudang railway stationCepu railway station

Changes at Semarang, with 83 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 6h 21mCO2 18.3 kgChanges 1Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
KAINoneNone140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
  • KAI

The train gets you into Cepu. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Cepu for the night the train gets in

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Booking window

When to book Jakarta to Cepu

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €61.3990 days
  2. €63.5960 days
  3. €75.1445 days
  4. €75.1430 days
  5. €80.6421 days
  6. €65.2414 days
  7. €83.397 days
  8. €128.493 days
  9. €169.741 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €61.39.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 176 percent. The dearest point is €169.74, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €100.44Sun
  2. €89.99Mon
  3. €79.54Tue
  4. €80.64Wed
  5. €120.79Thu
  6. €93.29Fri
  7. €96.59Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Jakarta

Rail
  • Jakarta Kota railway station
  • Jakarta Gudang railway station
  • Jakarta International Stadium railway station

Cepu

Rail
  • Cepu railway station
  • Tobo railway station
  • Wadu railway station
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 554 km against 534 km in a straight line, a detour of 28 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Semarang, Surabaya. The gap between arriving and leaving is 83 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 12 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Jakarta at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Jakarta to Cepu

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Train from Jakarta to Cepu take?

The Train from Jakarta to Cepu takes 6h 21m door to door, of which 4h 14m is spent moving. The route runs 554 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Train from Jakarta to Cepu cost?

The Train from Jakarta to Cepu starts at €65.24 for one passenger, as of 23 September 2026. A typical fare is €78.44. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Train from Jakarta to Cepu?

1 operators run the Train from Jakarta to Cepu: KAI. Between them they file around 2 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Train from Jakarta to Cepu use?

The Train from Jakarta to Cepu leaves from Jakarta Kota railway station and arrives at Cepu railway station. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Train from Jakarta to Cepu?

Fares for the Train from Jakarta to Cepu bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €61.39. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 176 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Jakarta to Cepu produce?

The Train from Jakarta to Cepu produces about 22.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 554 km, which works out at roughly 41 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Train from Jakarta to Cepu?

Operators on the Train from Jakarta to Cepu publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 21m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Jakarta to Cepu on 23 September 2026: 554 km of route against 534 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €65.24, and 6h 21m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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