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Skudai, Pasir Gudang — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Skudai is a town in Johor, about 13 kilometres north-west of Johor Bahru's central business district, with its own museum and art gallery.
About Skudai
Where to stay in Skudai
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
You stay in Skudai to be near somewhere else. Most people booking here want Johor Bahru within reach while staying outside its central business district, and about 13 kilometres separates the two. The museum anchors the other choice.
A room near the Tan Sri Datuk Chang Joo Chiang Museum and Art Gallery puts Skudai's own named site at the door, which matters for anyone here for the town rather than for Johor Bahru.
About Skudai
What are the main landmarks in Skudai?
One collection carries the name. The Tan Sri Datuk Chang Joo Chiang Museum and Art Gallery is Skudai's single recorded landmark, which gives a town otherwise defined by its position relative to Johor Bahru something of its own. Johor supplies the rest.
Anything larger sits outside the town, the offices of Johor Bahru's central business district, and the wider municipality of Pasir Gudang that Skudai is grouped with in Johor.
What is the history of Skudai?
The year Skudai began is missing from the Johor record. What the record gives for Skudai is its standing as a town in Johor, Malaysia, and its distance from Johor Bahru, which is how the place has been described rather than by any charter. A name survives in the gallery.
Tan Sri Datuk Chang Joo Chiang is carried by the museum and art gallery in Skudai, and that dedication is the one personal name the town's record attaches to a building.
Where is Skudai?
Skudai lies about 13 kilometres north-west of Johor Bahru's central business district, in the tropical band of Johor, Malaysia.
Updated August 2026