Downtown Core
The Downtown Core is the historic urban centre of Singapore and the country's primary commercial district.
The Downtown Core is the historic urban centre of Singapore and the country's primary commercial district. It contains the main central business district (CBD), with a high concentration of skyscrapers in Raffles Place, Tanjong Pagar and Marina Bay. The Downtown Core is one of the eleven planning areas within the highly urbanised Central Area and forms the core of Singapore's central city zone. It is bounded by Rochor to the north, Kallang to the northeast, Marina East and Marina South to the east, Straits View to the southeast, Bukit Merah to the south, as well as Outram, Museum and Singapore River to the west.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Downtown Core
- Airports
- Singapore Changi (SIN), 17 km · Hang Nadim (BTH), 35 km · Senai (JHB), 44 km
- Johor Bahru → Downtown Core23 km · quickest by road, 44 min · RM6–8
- Sepang → Downtown Core281 km · quickest by road, 5h · RM65–85
- Subang → Downtown Core975 km · quickest by air, 10h 28m · Rp2,311,470–3,556,930
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Downtown Core
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Downtown Core. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA similar scheme is available for citizens of India who have a valid visa or residence permit issued by Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom or the United States (Schengen visas issued by other countries do not count), and have an onward plane, ferry or cruise ticket to a third country.
- Get inFerries link Singapore with the neighbouring Indonesian province of Riau Islands, and the Malaysian state of Johor.
- Get inSingapore has two terminals that handle international ferries: near Sentosa and near Changi Airport.
- Get inHarbourFront Ferry Terminal is located inside HarbourFront Centre shopping mall, not to be confused with the adjoining VivoCity.
- Get inTanah Merah Ferry Terminal is located south of Changi Airport.
From Wikivoyage: Singapore, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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