Downtown Core

Museums & galleries

ArtScience Museum

Downtown Core

The ArtScience Museum is an exhibition building on Marina Bay in Singapore's Downtown Core, opened in 2011 to a design by Moshe Safdie in the form of an open hand with ten fingers.

Performing arts

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

Downtown Core

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay is a performing arts centre on Marina Bay in Singapore, opened in 2002, containing a concert hall and theatre beneath two shaded glazed domes.

Waterfront

Merlion Park

Downtown Core

Merlion Park is a small waterfront park at the mouth of the Singapore River in the Downtown Core, holding the Merlion statue installed in 1972 and moved to its present position in 2002.

Markets

Lau Pa Sat

Downtown Core

Lau Pa Sat is a hawker centre in Singapore's Downtown Core housed in a filigree cast-iron octagonal market hall of 1894, gazetted as a National Monument.

Religious sites

Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church

Downtown Core

Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church is a church on Telok Ayer Street in Singapore, completed in 1925 and combining a Western chapel plan with southern Chinese roof forms. It is a gazetted National Monument.

Markets

Maxwell Food Centre

Downtown Core

Maxwell Food Centre is a hawker centre on Kadayanallur Street in Singapore's Chinatown, converted from a wet market in the 1980s and one of the busiest hawker halls in the central area.

Museums & galleries

Singapore City Gallery

Downtown Core

The Singapore City Gallery on Maxwell Road presents the Urban Redevelopment Authority's account of Singapore's physical planning, including a large architectural model of the central area.

Visit info checked Sept 2026

Shopping

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.

Markets

Amoy Street Food Centre

Downtown Core

Amoy Street Food Centre in Singapore's Telok Ayer area is a two-storey hawker centre opened in 1983, serving the surrounding office district.

Religious sites

Yueh Hai Ching Temple

Downtown Core

Yueh Hai Ching Temple is a gazetted national monument of Singapore, the highest level of built-heritage protection the state confers.

Civic & heritage

Former Singapore Conference Hall and Trade Union House

Downtown Core

Former Singapore Conference Hall and Trade Union House is a gazetted national monument of Singapore, the highest level of built-heritage protection the state confers.

Markets

Market Street Hawker Centre

Downtown Core

Market Street Hawker Centre is a hawker centre in Downtown Core, Singapore with 56 cooked food stalls, run by the National Environment Agency. The agency describes it: "Located next to Raffles Place MRT Station, Market Street Hawker Centre is housed on the second and third levels of CapitaSpring Building. With 56 cooked food stalls spread over these two levels, patrons visiting the business district may enjoy a good variety of delicious local hawker fare. It is quite a common sight to see crowds, especially during lunch hours from Mondays to Fridays."

Visit info checked Sept 2026

Transport gateways

Nicoll Highway

Downtown Core

Nicoll Highway is an MRT station in Downtown Core, Singapore, recorded in the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Master Plan rail layer.

Transport gateways

Marina Bay

Downtown Core

Marina Bay is an MRT station in Downtown Core, Singapore, recorded in the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Master Plan rail layer.

Transport gateways

Bayfront

Downtown Core

Bayfront is an MRT station in Downtown Core, Singapore, recorded in the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Master Plan rail layer.

Transport gateways

Raffles Place Interchange

Downtown Core

Raffles Place Interchange is an MRT station in Downtown Core, Singapore, recorded in the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Master Plan rail layer.

Transport gateways

Shenton Way

Downtown Core

Shenton Way is an MRT station in Downtown Core, Singapore, recorded in the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Master Plan rail layer.

Transport gateways

Prince Edward Road

Downtown Core

Prince Edward Road is an MRT station in Downtown Core, Singapore, recorded in the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Master Plan rail layer.

Restaurants

Ah Chew Desserts

Downtown Core

Ah Chew Desserts is a restaurant at 1 Liang Seah Street, #01-10/11 Liang Seah Place, in Downtown Core, Singapore. A Liang Seah Street dessert house serving Cantonese tong sui, on a street given over almost entirely to late-night dessert shops.

Visit info checked Sept 2026

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.

Shopping

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.

Nightlife

CE LA VI Singapore

Downtown Core

CE LA VI Singapore is a bar at Bayfront Avenue, Marina Bay Sands Hotel Tower 3, Level 57, in Downtown Core, Singapore. A club lounge on the Marina Bay Sands SkyPark, on the roof of the city's most recognised building.

Coworking

JustCo Raffles City

Downtown Core

JustCo Raffles City is a workspace at 250 North Bridge Road, #09-01, in Downtown Core, Singapore. A Singapore-founded coworking operator inside Raffles City Tower; the city-centre example of the flexible-workspace format that grew here before spreading across Asia.

Wellness & fitness

Kenko Wellness Spa Marina Square

Downtown Core

Kenko Wellness Spa Marina Square is a spa or gym at 6 Raffles Boulevard, #02-10 Marina Square, in Downtown Core, Singapore. A reflexology house in Marina Square from a Singapore group that made foot reflexology a mainstream service here.

Restaurants

Labyrinth

Downtown Core

Labyrinth is a restaurant at 8 Raffles Avenue, #02-23 Esplanade Mall, in Downtown Core, Singapore. An Esplanade Mall restaurant built around Singaporean produce and hawker references, at the waterfront arts centre.

Nightlife

Long Bar at Raffles Hotel

Downtown Core

Long Bar at Raffles Hotel is a bar at 328 North Bridge Road, #02-01 Raffles Arcade, in Downtown Core, Singapore. The bar where the Singapore Sling was created, now in the Raffles Arcade beside the national monument hotel.

Restaurants

New Ubin Seafood CHIJMES

Downtown Core

New Ubin Seafood CHIJMES is a restaurant at 30 Victoria Street, #02-01B/C CHIJMES, in Downtown Core, Singapore. A zi char restaurant that began in a Pulau Ubin kampong in 1986, now trading inside the CHIJMES national monument.

Nightlife

Nutmeg & Clove

Downtown Core

Nutmeg & Clove is a bar at 8 Purvis Street, in Downtown Core, Singapore. A Purvis Street bar whose drinks are built around Singapore's own history and spice trade.

Restaurants

Odette

Downtown Core

Odette is a restaurant at 1 St Andrew's Road, #01-04, in Downtown Core, Singapore. A restaurant on the ground floor of the National Gallery, in the former City Hall building.

Restaurants

Rang Mahal

Downtown Core

Rang Mahal is a restaurant at 41 Seah Street, Naumi Hotel, in Downtown Core, Singapore. An Indian restaurant trading since 1971 and among the longest-running in the city, now in the Naumi hotel on Seah Street.

Shopping

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.

Restaurants

Tiffin Room at Raffles Hotel

Downtown Core

Tiffin Room at Raffles Hotel is a restaurant at 1 Beach Road, in Downtown Core, Singapore. The curry tiffin room of a national monument hotel, serving in the same room since 1892.

Wellness & fitness

Virgin Active Raffles Place

Downtown Core

Virgin Active Raffles Place is a spa or gym at One Raffles Place Tower 2, #06-61, in Downtown Core, Singapore. A CBD club inside One Raffles Place, an example of the office-tower gym format that shaped how the financial district exercises.

Restaurants

Yhingthai Palace

Downtown Core

Yhingthai Palace is a restaurant at 36 Purvis Street, #01-04, in Downtown Core, Singapore. A Purvis Street Thai restaurant open since 1988, on a street of long-standing independent restaurants.

Visit info checked Sept 2026