Chinatown MRT station
NEL · DTL · NE4 / DT19
Chinatown station in detail
Chinatown station puts you in the middle of one of Singapore's oldest and most photographed districts, an interchange between the North East Line and the Downtown Line since the DTL's 2013 opening. Exit directly onto Pagoda Street and you are among shophouses, lantern-strung lanes and incense smoke from the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum, whose gilded stupa sits a few doors down. A short walk the other way is the Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore's oldest Hindu temple, dating to 1827, and the cavernous Chinatown Complex market and hawker centre, where hundreds of stalls including a Michelin-listed soya sauce chicken stand serve the neighbourhood day and night.
Changing lines here is free. You stay inside the paid area and the fare is worked out once, from the distance of your whole journey.
What is around Chinatown?
Connections from this station
Fares and travel times from Chinatown
| To | Distance | Adult fare | Before 07:45 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dhoby Ghaut | 2.1 km | S$1.28 | S$0.78 |
| City Hall | 1.7 km | S$1.28 | S$0.78 |
| Raffles Place | 1.1 km | S$1.28 | S$0.78 |
| Orchard | 3.1 km | S$1.28 | S$0.78 |
| Jurong East | 15.7 km | S$2.11 | S$1.61 |
| Changi Airport | 22.5 km | S$2.36 | S$1.86 |
| Bayfront | 2.2 km | S$1.28 | S$0.78 |
| HarbourFront | 4.1 km | S$1.38 | S$0.88 |
Indicative distance-based card fares. Tap in before 07:45 on a weekday and 50 cents comes off any fare. Work out an exact route in the route planner.
Facilities at Chinatown
Go early on a weekday for photos without crowds — Pagoda Street fills up by mid-morning. The Buddha Tooth Relic Temple closes its upper floors around 17:00, so visit before an evening stroll through the food stalls.
Other stations on this line
Chinatown — frequently asked questions
Chinatown is an interchange between the North East Line (NE4) and the Downtown Line (DT19), so you can reach it directly from HarbourFront, Little India, Bugis or Bugis Junction without changing.
Exit A brings you out onto South Bridge Road within a couple of minutes’ walk of the temple; the same exit also leads to Pagoda Street and Sri Mariamman Temple.
It’s about a ten-minute walk south along South Bridge Road and New Bridge Road, past Sri Mariamman Temple, to reach Maxwell — Tanjong Pagar or Telok Ayer on the Downtown Line are marginally closer if that’s your only stop.
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