Singapore now — —:— SGT Vol. 01 · The Free & Easy Issue · S$0 to use, forever
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Traveller on the canopy walkway beside the Rain Vortex indoor waterfall at Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore — illustrative
Self-guided · no tour bus · no group — promise

Singapore,
free & easy.

Ready-made trips and day-by-day plans you follow on your own — every station, exit, walk and last train already worked out.

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№01  Three ways to do the island
№02  Seventy-two hours, hour by hour
№03  Dinner for S$6
№04  Five communities, one island
№ 001 · AUG 2026 · S$0.00
92attractions, each
mapped to a station
S$0to use, forever —
no account needed
4.7★average across
every published trip
12,400planned their own
Singapore this year
Gardens by the Bay ✦ Maxwell ✦ Sentosa ✦ Kampong Glam ✦ Mandai ✦ Katong ✦ Marina Bay ✦ Chinatown ✦ Little India ✦ Clarke Quay ✦ 
A letter from the desk · P. 003
The best tour guide in Singapore is a contactless card and a plan that respects your time.

This city was built to be walked without a chaperone. Almost every attraction sits minutes from a station, the signage is in English, and the trains run to midnight. What trips people up is never the big stuff — it's which exit, which hawker centre is shut for cleaning, and when the last train leaves. So that is exactly what we compute. Everything else, this issue leaves to you.

— the SC360 desk, Changi August 2026
Contents
№ 01Three ways to do the islandP. 014 № 02Seventy-two hours, hour by hourP. 022 № 03Dinner for S$6, three minutes from the stationP. 036 № 04Five communities, one islandP. 044
Every fact on these pages carries a source and a last-verified date — LTA · NEA · OneMap · NParks · data.gov.sg
№ 01 — start here · P. 014

Three ways to
do the island.

Follow one as-is, or swap any stop. Every cost is what you'd actually pay at the gate or the fare reader — no tour markup, ever.

01
Marina Bay Sands
3 days · most popular
★ 4.7 · 2,140 travellers
The Classic Three

Marina Bay, the heritage quarters and Sentosa — the trip most first-timers actually want.

SUPERTREESHAWKER LUNCHSILOSO BEACH
transit from S$11.40 Day by day →
02
Singapore Zoo, Mandai rainforest
6 days
★ 4.6 · 860 travellers
The Whole Island

Everything in the Classic, plus Mandai's wild north, the Peranakan east and a slow last day.

NIGHT SAFARIKATONGTREETOP WALK
transit from S$24.80 Day by day →
03
Siloso Beach, Sentosa
12 hours · layover
★ 4.7 · 1,320 travellers
The Long Layover

Bags in a locker, city seen, back at the gate with time to spare. Timed to your flight.

LEFT LUGGAGEMERLIONBACK BY T+3H
transit from S$4.40 See the timing →
Wish you were here · P. 018
"Go at 19:45 — the Supertrees do the rest."
Garden Rhapsody, Gardens by the Bay · free, nightly · Bayfront, Exit B, 4 min
Photo — singaporecity360.com
№ 02 — hour by hour · P. 022

Seventy-two hours,
already planned.

14 stops. MRT and walking only. Six meals under S$8. And when it rains, every exposed stop has an indoor swap — same area, same timing.

✓ routes & fares verified 21 Jul 2026 — LTA · OneMap
14 stopsS$11.40 total transit11.2 km walked6 meals under S$8MRT + walking only — promise
Supertree Grove at Gardens by the Bay
1
Day one — 4 stops · marina bay loop
Marina Bay
9:30
Gardens by the BayDT16 BAYFRONT
Cloud Forest first, then the Supertrees · Exit B — the fast one
↳ 6 min walk — all covered
13:00
Satay by the Bay
hawker lunch, about S$7 · eat facing the domes
↳ 12 min along the waterfront promenade
17:00
MBS SkyPark
go up for sunset, not midday
↳ 5 min across the Event Plaza
20:00
Spectra light show
free · runs rain or shine — check the 21:00 slot when wet
MRT S$3.20 · 4.1 km · rainy swap: ArtScience Museum
Chinatown shophouses, Singapore
2
Day two — 4 stops · the heritage quarters
Heritage
9:00
ChinatownNE4DT19
Buddha Tooth Relic Temple first, before the heat
↳ 4 min down South Bridge Road
12:00
Maxwell Food CentreTE18 MAXWELL
chicken rice · the Bib Gourmand row
↳ MRT 11 min — one transfer, all indoors
14:30
Kampong GlamDT14 BUGIS
Sultan Mosque, then Haji Lane
↳ MRT 6 min on the Downtown line
18:30
Little IndiaNE7
Tekka Centre for dinner
MRT S$4.10 · 3.8 km · one transfer
Siloso Beach, Sentosa
3
Day three — 4 stops · island day
Sentosa
9:30
HarbourFrontNE1CC29
Sentosa Express from VivoCity L3
↳ Sentosa Express — 8 min over the water
10:30
Universal Studios
half a day is enough · book ahead · ride the back of the park first
↳ free beach shuttle from Beach station
16:30
Siloso Beach
free · stay for the light going gold
↳ cable car up from Beach — take the window seat
19:30
Cable car back
the skyline, lit up
MRT S$4.10 · 3.3 km · last train 23:58
Staying six?
The island keeps going.
+ S$13.40 transit · 1 rest morning built in
Day 4 — Mandai
Zoo → River Wonders → Night Safari
last tram 23:15 — don't cut it fine
Day 5 — The east
TreeTop Walk → Katong → East Coast
Peranakan houses, laksa stop, feet in the sand
Day 6 — City → fly
National Gallery → Orchard → Jewel
the Rain Vortex before check-in

Where the plans
take you.

A photo essay in seven stops · P. 028
every one within 10 min of a station
The Merlion at dusk
Merlion Park — best from the Esplanade roof terraceRaffles Place · 5 min
ArtScience Museum at night
The lotus opens at night — ArtScience Museum, Marina BayBayfront · Exit C
Sultan Mosque, Kampong Glam
The golden dome, Kampong GlamBugis · 6 min
Little India shophouses
Little India, in full colourTekka · NE7
Clarke Quay at blue hour
Blue hour on the river, Clarke QuayNE5 · Exit E
Chinatown rooftops at dusk
Two Singapores in one frame — shophouse roofs, CBD glass. Chinatown at dusk.Maxwell · TE18
Singapore Flyer at sunrise
Sunrise slot, Singapore Flyer — the queue-free onePromenade · CC4
All 23 attraction guides →
Check before you head out — live from NEA · P. 034

The sky, right now.

Live from Singapore. When it turns wet, your plan changes with it — that's the whole point.

Live — NEAchecked just now
31°C
Partly cloudy, a shower about
feels 33°humidity 76%islandwide readings
Next few days — MSS four-day outlook
Today
Thundery showers
25–33°C
Tomorrow
Thundery showers
25–33°C
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Thundery showers
25–33°C
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Thundery showers
25–33°C
Afternoon showers pass in about 30 minutes — duck into a hawker centre and carry on.The rainy-day plan →
№ 03 — eat like a local · P. 036
S$6.

Dinner, three minutes
from the station.

59 Bib Gourmand stalls across 28 hawker centres. We read NEA's cleaning-closure calendar straight from their own data — so you never walk to a centre that's shut.

✓ closures re-checked daily — NEA · data.gov.sg
Newton Food Centre
supper territory — and the most Bib Gourmand stalls of any centre
Newton · DT11
Maxwell Food Centre
the chicken-rice pilgrimage — 4 minutes from Chinatown
Maxwell · TE18
Amoy Street Food Centre
weekday lunch with the office crowd — blissfully quiet at weekends
Telok Ayer · DT18
All 59, by centre and dish →Splurging? The 45 MICHELIN stars for 2026 →
№ 04 — who built what, and why · P. 044

Five communities,
one island.

Not one culture with variations — five that arrived at different times, for different reasons, and stayed. Two of them exist almost nowhere else on Earth.

I
Chinese
about three in four residents

One label, five dialect groups — the temple your family visits and half the hawker menu still depend on which one.
II
Malay
the people already here

Indigenous to the region, not immigrants to it — and the reason the anthem is sung in Malay.
III
Indian
older than Little India

Mostly Tamil. The oldest Hindu temple here was founded in 1827 — in the middle of Chinatown.
IV
Peranakan
born here — "locally born"

What happened when foreign traders married local women — a culture that exists almost nowhere else.
V
Eurasian
here since the 1600s

Fewer than 20,000 — the community nobody puts on a poster, with a Christmas table worth crossing town for.
Nearly every temple, mosque and church welcomes visitors — free, no booking. Four rules cover them all. Read the culture issue →
Wish you were here — mail from people who went

Postcards from the
free & easy.

12,400+ self-guided trips this year
average ★ 4.7 — no tour bus involved

"We landed at 22:40 and I already knew we’d missed the last train. Took the taxi — no panic, no arguing at the rank."

— Aparna
★★★★★ · 4 days
Merlion stamp
SINGAPORE · 92¢
SINGAPORE
CHANGI T3
22:47
To: the family group chat
Mumbai, India

"Followed the 3-day plan exactly. Exit B at Bayfront really is the fast one — small thing, saved us every time."

— Pieter
★★★★★ · 3 days
Supertrees stamp
SINGAPORE · 92¢
SINGAPORE
BAYFRONT
EXIT B
To: the office, sorry
Rotterdam, NL

"The hawker opening hours alone. We’d have walked to Amoy Street on a cleaning week without this."

— Mei
★★★★★ · 6 days
Kampong Glam stamp
SINGAPORE · 92¢
SINGAPORE
MAXWELL
12:05
To: Mum
Kuala Lumpur, MY
See it, don't guess it · P. 048

Your three days, mapped.

Real coordinates, real distances. Tap any pin for the stop and the tip that goes with it — no "5 minutes away" that turns out to be thirty.

Day 1 · Marina Bay Day 2 · Heritage Day 3 · Sentosa
pins on true coordinates · basemap © CARTO / OpenStreetMap
The practical bits · P. 052

Know before you go.

When to come

25–32°C all year. February to April is driest; November to January brings short, heavy downpours. There is no bad season — only wet afternoons.

Daily budget

Free-and-easy runs S$70–130 a day. Hawker meals S$5–8, MRT about S$5 a day — and several of the best things are free.

Getting around

Tap any contactless card straight in. Trains run 05:30 to about midnight — we show your last one, every night.

Small rules

Tap water is safe to drink. No eating or drinking on the MRT — that one is actually fined.

Do the maths first — live calculator
Is the Tourist Pass worth it?
Days of travel3
MRT or bus trips per day4
Pay as you go, per tripS$16.20
Tourist Pass, deposit backS$24.00
Pay as you go wins by S$7.80 — skip the pass.
✓ fares LTA · pass TransitLink · verified 21 Jul 2026
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