GCI Places

Transport gateways · Victoria

Bencoolen

Bencoolen is an MRT station in Rochor, Singapore, recorded in the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Master Plan rail layer.

Bencoolen, a station in Singapore
Bencoolen, photographed as a station and confirmed by inspection to show this place rather than its surroundings. Seloloving · CC-BY-SA-4.0

Good for

  • Architecture & design — A building whose interest is legible from the street, whether or not anything inside it is open. It is in this corpus as an MRT station in the URA rail layer with 12 verified places within 700 m, making it a real arrival point for this part of the city.

These are editorial judgements, not verified facts.

Sources & verification

coordinates.latitude
Master Plan 2019 Rail Station layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Point published against this record by Urban Redevelopment Authority.
coordinates.longitude
Master Plan 2019 Rail Station layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
name
Master Plan 2019 Rail Station layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
The register's own title for this record is "Bencoolen"; the displayed name is that title cleaned of markup and case, not a rename.
externalIds.sourceRecordId
Master Plan 2019 Rail Station layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
The identifier Urban Redevelopment Authority gives this record. Read from the response.
category
Master Plan 2019 Rail Station layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Assigned from the register's own classification of this record as "sg_rail_stations".
neighborhoodId
Master Plan 2019 Rail Station layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Assigned by point-in-polygon against the Urban Redevelopment Authority's published Master Plan boundary.

Not verified: opening hours, admission prices and access rules. These change frequently and we have not checked them, so this page does not state them. Check the official website before travelling.

Created from record 22 of Master Plan 2019 Rail Station layer.

Nearby verified places

Museums & galleries

National Museum of Singapore

Bras Basah

The National Museum of Singapore on Stamford Road is the country's oldest museum, occupying a neo-Palladian building of 1887 with a glazed rotunda and a 2006 rear extension.

Visit info checked Sept 2026

Museums & galleries

Singapore Art Museum

Bras Basah

The Singapore Art Museum focuses on contemporary art from Southeast Asia. Its Bras Basah Road building is the former St Joseph's Institution, a mid-nineteenth-century Catholic school and a National Monument.

Religious sites

RC Church of St Joseph

Victoria

RC Church of St Joseph is a gazetted national monument of Singapore, the highest level of built-heritage protection the state confers.

Religious sites

Church of Sts. Peter and Paul

Victoria

Church of Sts. Peter and Paul is a gazetted national monument of Singapore, the highest level of built-heritage protection the state confers.

Appears in

Explore Singapore

Places records what is here. The city intelligence platform measures how the city works.