The southern central area of Johor Bahru includes many useful pedestrian-only connections shortening the large blocks, including some recently implemented as part of a pedestrian-oriented upgrade to the streets in this area. (Pedestrian connections are found in the northern CBD too, though they tend to be through large malls.) This staircase can be a pleasant place to sit and look down on Jl. Trus below. The views of somewhat dilapidated two-storey shops and businesses might not last for too much longer as the CBD undergoes a construction boom only likely to increase as new transit connections open in coming years including the RTS rail connection to Singapore.
Just next to the staircase, across a driveway, is the Old Chinese Temple of Johor Bahru, built 150 years ago and now nestled amongst surrounding highrises. As Wikipedia evocatively puts it, "This temple is one of the oldest structures in the city and [has] become the symbol of unity among five Chinese ethnic groups of Teochew, Hoklo (Hokkien), Cantonese, Hakka and Hainanese people", each of which has a diety in the temple.
There's a locally famous, decades-old asam pedas restaurant just across the road in Jl. Trus.