Shopping in Singapore

Shopping

Basheer Graphic Books

Downtown Core

Basheer Graphic Books is a shop at 231 Bain Street, #04-19 Bras Basah Complex, in Downtown Core, Singapore. An art and design bookshop in Bras Basah Complex, the building known as Singapore's book centre.

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Bugis Junction

Downtown Core

Bugis Junction in Singapore's Rochor area is a shopping centre built around retained shophouse streets, which were roofed with glass and air-conditioned in 1995.

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Bynd Artisan Raffles City

Downtown Core

Bynd Artisan Raffles City is a shop at 252 North Bridge Road, #03-24 Raffles City, in Downtown Core, Singapore. A leather and paper atelier descended from a 1940s Singapore bookbindery, with craftsmen working in the shop.

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Cat Socrates Yong Siak Street

Bukit Merah

Cat Socrates Yong Siak Street is a shop at 78 Yong Siak Street, #01-14, in Bukit Merah, Singapore. An independent bookshop and gift store on Yong Siak Street, the row that turned Tiong Bahru into a destination for small retail.

Visit info checked Sept 2026

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Design Orchard

Orchard

Design Orchard on Orchard Road in Singapore is a retail and incubation space for Singaporean designers, opened in 2019, with a public terraced roof.

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Funan

City Hall

Funan is a retail and office complex on North Bridge Road in Singapore's Downtown Core, rebuilt in 2019 with a cycling path running through the building and rooftop urban farming.

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Haji Lane

Rochor and Kampong Glam

Haji Lane is a narrow shophouse street in Singapore's Kampong Glam, lined with independent retail and painted facades, within the Kampong Glam conservation area.

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ION Orchard

Orchard

ION Orchard is a shopping centre at the Orchard and Scotts Road junction in Singapore, opened in 2009, with four basement retail levels connected directly to the MRT station.

Visit info checked Sept 2026

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Kim Choo Kueh Chang

Kim Choo Kueh Chang is a Joo Chiat Peranakan food and craft shop trading since 1945, in Geylang, Singapore.

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Little India Arcade

Rochor and Kampong Glam

Little India Arcade on Serangoon Road in Singapore is a conserved block of shophouses of the 1920s, restored in 1994 and trading as a covered retail arcade.

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Ngee Ann City

Orchard

Ngee Ann City is a retail and office complex on Orchard Road in Singapore, opened in 1993 in a granite-clad twin-tower form, housing the Takashimaya department store.

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Rumah Bebe

Rumah Bebe is a Peranakan beadwork and kebaya shop in a conserved East Coast Road shophouse, in Marine Parade, Singapore.

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Sifr Aromatics

Rochor and Kampong Glam

Sifr Aromatics is a shop at 42 Arab Street, in Rochor and Kampong Glam, Singapore. An Arab Street perfumery run by the third generation of a family that has blended attar in Kampong Glam since 1933.

Visit info checked Sept 2026

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Sim Lim Square

Rochor and Kampong Glam

Sim Lim Square is a shop at 1 Rochor Canal Road, in Rochor and Kampong Glam, Singapore. A Rochor Canal Road electronics mall that has been the city's computer-parts centre since 1987.

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Supermama

Bukit Merah

Supermama is a shop at 213 Henderson Road, #01-01, in Bukit Merah, Singapore. A Singapore shop producing Singapore-motif porcelain with a Japanese kiln, now on Henderson Road after years in Kampong Glam.

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Takashimaya Singapore

Takashimaya Singapore is a department store in Ngee Ann City on Orchard Road, in Orchard, Singapore.

Visit info checked Sept 2026

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The Cathay Photo Store

Downtown Core

The Cathay Photo Store is a shop at 111 North Bridge Road, #01-05 to 08 Peninsula Plaza, in Downtown Core, Singapore. A Peninsula Plaza camera shop trading since 1959, and the anchor of Singapore's photographic retail cluster.

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Thow Kwang Pottery Jungle

Thow Kwang Pottery Jungle is a shop at 85 Lorong Tawas, in Western Water Catchment, Singapore. A Jurong pottery with the oldest surviving dragon kiln in Singapore, still fired.

Visit info checked Sept 2026

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Wardah Books

Rochor and Kampong Glam

Wardah Books is a shop at 58 Bussorah Street, in Rochor and Kampong Glam, Singapore. A Bussorah Street bookshop specialising in Islamic and Malay-world titles, facing Sultan Mosque.

Visit info checked Sept 2026

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Woods in the Books Katong

Marine Parade

Woods in the Books Katong is a shop at 206 East Coast Road, in Marine Parade, Singapore. A picture-book shop on East Coast Road, one of very few in Singapore given over entirely to illustrated books for children.