First mobile phone is not more than simply as a means of communication (phone and sms). As the
era of development, it slowly has begun to develop mobile phone function not only as a medium of
communication but also as a medium for entertainment (camera, music player, and others), and even
now the phone can be used as media campaign. Yogyakarta as one of the city famous for the cultural
heritage and history often become the object of tourist attractions, but travel to tourist attractions often
have difficulty finding the location of the tour.
Application Yogyakarta City Tour Guide Using Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) based ClientServer,
is made to provide a mobile phone function, namely to provide information on local attractions of
Yogyakarta to the public through the media phone. This application is implemented on the development
of JAVA programming language, especially Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME), NetBeans 6.1 to use the
software. Methods used in the making of this application are the observation and study library.
This application can be a media promotion of Yogyakarta, especially in terms of tourism and is
expected application can facilitate travel information for tourists
