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Planning Area and HDB Town in North-East Region, Singapore

Serangoon

Serangoon is a planning area and residential town located in the North-East Region of Singapore.

Serangoon
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The place

Serangoon is a planning area and residential town located in the North-East Region of Singapore.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Serangoon

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Bishan Stadium

    Bishan Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Bishan, Singapore. It is the main home ground of Singapore Premier League side Lion City Sailors, and used mostly for football matches.

    2 km · Multi-purpose stadium in Bishan, Singapore · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple, Singapore

    Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple or Sri Perumal Temple is one of the oldest temples in Singapore. It was built by the early Indian settlers who were of Tamil Speaking.

    5.7 km · 19th century Hindu temple in Singapore · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Masjid Al-Mawaddah

    Masjid Al-Mawaddah is a mosque located in Buangkok, within the Sengkang planning area of the North-East Region, Singapore. It is adjacent to Renjong LRT station and the Sengkang Grand Mall.

    3.5 km · mosque in Singapore · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Masjid Al-Istiqamah

    Masjid Al-Istiqamah is a mosque located in the Serangoon North district at the border of Serangoon and Kovan, Singapore. Completed in 1999, it is one of two mosques built under the third phase of the Mosque Building Fund, the other being Masjid Al-Istighfar at Pasir Ris.

    1.1 km · mosque in Singapore · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    1986 Hotel New World disaster

    The collapse of Hotel New World was a civil disaster that occurred in Singapore on 15 March 1986. The Hotel New World was a six-story building situated at the junction of Serangoon Road and Owen Road in the Rochor district when it suddenly collapsed, trapping 50 people beneath the rubble.

    5.9 km · 1986 building collapse caused by a calculation error which killed 33 people in Singapore · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery

    The Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery, more popularly known as Bright Hill Temple,, is a Buddhist temple and monastery located along 88 Bright Hill Road in Bishan, Singapore. It was built in 1921 by Venerable Zhuan Dao to propagate Buddhism and provide lodging for monks.

    3.5 km · Largest Buddhist temple in Singapore · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Siong Lim Temple

    Siong Lim Temple, also known as Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery, is a Buddhist monastery located in Toa Payoh, Singapore, next to the Pan Island Expressway. The temple was founded in 1898, but the construction of the premises only began in 1902 by Low Kim Pong and was completed in 1907.

    3.9 km · Buddhist temple in Singapore · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Masjid En-Naeem

    Masjid En-Naeem or the En-Naeem Mosque is located in Hougang, Singapore. Established in the 1980s, it was completed and first opened in 1983.

    2.7 km · mosque in Hougang, Singapore · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Masjid An-Nahdhah

    Masjid An-Nahdhah is an Islamic religious complex located in Bishan, Singapore. The complex comprises a congregational mosque, madrasa, as well as a small museum known as the Harmony Centre.

    2.2 km · mosque in Bishan, Singapore · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Masjid Al-Muttaqin

    Masjid Al-Muttaqin is a congregational mosque located in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore. The mosque was built in 1980 and is situated along Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6, serving congregants in the neighborhood.

    2.5 km · mosque in Singapore · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Serangoon

Airports
Singapore Changi (SIN), 14 km · Senai (JHB), 38 km · Hang Nadim (BTH), 39 km
Stations
Seletar Airport, 5.9 km · Paya Lebar MRT station, 5.8 km · Aljunied MRT station, 5.5 km · Kallang MRT station, 5.8 km · Mattar MRT station, 4.4 km
  • Sepang → Serangoon
    281 km · quickest by road, 4h 58m · RM65–85
  • Subang → Serangoon
    981 km · quickest by air, 10h 11m · Rp2,311,460–3,556,920
  • Padang (Katapiang) → Serangoon
    466 km · quickest by air, 6h 57m · Rp1,293,860–2,000,260
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Serangoon

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 Serangoon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Tanjung Balai KarimunID

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    66 km
  2. 02
    Tanjung Pinang and BintanID

    9 ways of moving, 49 sources

    82 km
  3. 03
    SelatpanjangID

    7 ways of moving, 12 sources

    135 km
  4. 04
    TiomanMY

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    165 km
  5. 05
    Anambas IslandsID

    10 ways of moving, 23 sources

    308 km

If you know how people move in Serangoon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Serangoon

Serangoon is 8 km from Singapore, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kallangplanning area and residential town in Singapore5.9 km
  • Toa Payohplanning area and matured residential town located in the northern part of the Central Region of Singapore3.7 km
  • Geylangdistrict in Singapore5.3 km
  • Bishanneighborhood in Singapore2.3 km
  • South East Community Development CouncilSouth East Singapore District5.5 km
  • Ang Mo Kioplanning area and residential town in North-East Region, Singapore2.5 km