Top 10 Leading Shopping Places in Singapore | Tourism
1. Orchard Road
Orchard Road is the region’s most famous shopping area. This place is also known as the ‘city’ of Singapore and it is the most popular shopping area among tourists and locals. The street is lined the major local and international department stores, tiny boutique, supermarkets, movie theatres, restaurants ,cafes ,snack bars and famous hotels. Some of the renowned hotels are - The Boulevard, Hilton International, Mandarin Hotel, Hyatt Regency, The main shopping complexes would be Centre point, The Far East Plaza, Paragon, Orchard Point, Far East Shopping Centre. Here, you will be enjoy shopping especially for clothes since there are a variety of brands ranging from designer labels like Louis Vuitton to fairly cheap wear like Giordano.
2. Arab Street
Popular with Singaporeans of all races, Arab Street is the heart of Singapore’s Muslim community with the impressive Sultan Mosque. This street beginning just north of Beach Road is filled with many interesting shopping surprises. Wonderful merchandise such as handicrafts, clothes, basket ware, jewelry and etc have a characteristic Islamic, Malay, Indonesian, Arabic influence. The most attractive goods are textiles, fabric in every color and pattern imaginable, handmade batiks, French chiffons and Chinese silks.
Location: Arab St, Singapore, Singapore
Open hours: Mon-Sat
3. Chinatown
This place was set-up by migrants from China in the late 19th century. Chinatown is full of unique shop houses mostly in cloth, medicine, gold and food imported from China. The stores here are populated with shops offering antique stuffs, Chinese fashions, accessories, crafts and foods in cheap price. If you’re hungry, authentic Chinese meal is everywhere, along with good Korean food and inexpensive food at the Smith Street Hawker Centre. Enjoy shopping and negotiating in a traditional Chinese atmosphere.
Location: Smith St, Singapore, Singapore
Open hours: Mon-Sat
4. Holland
Holland Village is a unique area where you can find a lot of expatriates shop houses and popular pubs. It houses a lot of conserved and renovated antique stores which promote it to be the distinctive characteristic place. You can discover everything you want such as archaic curio shops peculiar art galleries, trendy music stores, nice coffee shops, a wet market, several fast food restaurants and well-known pubs include Wala Wala, Tango’s and La Luna.
Location: Holland Rd, Singapore, Singapore
5. Little India
Spend your wonderful time on shopping at an exotic and exciting place. Touch Indian ambiance and stunning with lots of brightly-painted shop houses every street corner. This place sells a lot of gold, jewelry, clothing, textiles, spices and handicrafts. If you are hungry, you can have affordable and wonderfully satisfying food prepared by the kitchens of all the little family-run restaurants.
Location: Serangoon Rd, Singapore
6. Marina Square
Marina Square is one of the largest shopping mall in Singapore. This nice shopping place is in Suntec City which is the popular business centre, and shopping mall- Millenia Walk. Now it is linked underpass through City Hall MRT- with a new underground shopping place called Raffles Link. You also find famous hotels like Raffles Hotel, Marina Mandarin, Oriental and Pan Pacific.
Location: 6 Raffles Boulevard, 01-101 Marina Square Singapore 039594
Tel: (65) 6339 8787
7. Clarke Quay
Have fun and enjoy shopping on every Sunday with the great colorful flea market.Clarke Quay offers plenty of out-of-the-ordinary items, antiques and home decors, chic souvenirs and nice t-shirts. There are a number of food choices including inexpensive satay or high quality partake from high-price restaurant.. This is also a fun place for Nightlife such as jazz bars, hard-partying dance clubs. And if you want to be sour-stiring, check out the G-Max Reverse Bungy, have a thrilled experience.
Location: 3 River Valley Rd, Singapore, Singapore
8. Linking City Hall
Linking City Hall, the first underground mall in Singapore, is located in City Hall and connects the City Hall MRT Station to several main developments in the area. There are over 50 shops providing a variety of merchandises including home accessories, beauty services, jewellery, fashion, books and music. You also discover nice cafés and restaurants like Dining at Sakae, O’Briens Irish Sandwich Bar, Thai Express and so on. Whether you are in the mood of hanging out or crazy shopping, Linking City Hall is the perfect choice for you. Find the wonders of Linking City Hall and you will never forget them.
Location: 1 Raffles Link Singapore 039393 Singapore
Tel : (65) 6339 9913
9. North Bridge Road
Are you looking for home appliances, gadgets and computers? North Bridge Road is the excellence choice for everyone. Meet your desire at Funan Centre and Sim Lim Square at North Bridge Road. In the same area you can also enjoy shopping at Pargo Bugis Junction, Peninsular Shopping Centre, High Street Centre, Capitol Theatre and building, Raffles Hotel Arcade, Blanco Court and Bras Basah Complex and Raffles City Complex. You can easy reach there by taking the train to City Hall MRT or Bugis MRT stations.
10. VivoCity
VivoCity is Singapore’s most modern mall and largest mall, at over 92,000 square meters (a million square feet). It is designed to be full of energy and vitality filled with wide open space for waterfront relaxation and entertainment. Its concept is the combination of retail and entertainment to activate and surprise patrons and to be modern and accessible for everyone. There are many big-name retailers here such as Tang’s, Toys ‘R Us, ESPRIT, Marks & Spencer, a Metropolitan Museum of Art New York gift shop, Swarovski, Liz Claiborne and L’Occitane.
Location: 1 Maritime Sq, Singapore, Singapore 099253
Tel : (65) 6377 6860
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