Raffles Place
Raffles Place MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit interchange station on the North–South Line and East–West Line in Singapore. Located in the Downtown Core, the station is underneath Raffles Place south of the Singapore River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Calvin Teo, CC BY 2.5.
- Type: Locality with 40 residents
- Description: Mass Rapid Transit interchange station in Singapore
- Also known as: “EW14”, “NS26”, “Raffles”, “Raffles Place MRT station”, and “莱佛士坊”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Marina Bay and Asian Civilisations Museum.
Marina Bay
Photo: Erwin Soo, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Marina Bay is Singapore's newest district, created on reclaimed land just east of Riverside. It includes the areas east of Shenton Way and Esplanade Dr.
Asian Civilisations Museum
Museum
The Asian Civilisations Museum is an institution which forms a part of the four museums in Singapore, the other three being the Peranakan Museum, the National Museum of Singapore and the Singapore Art Museum.
Merlion Park
Park
Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Merlion Park is a famous Singapore landmark and a major tourist attraction, located at One Fullerton, Singapore, near the Central Business District. The Merlion is a mythical creature with a lion's head and a fish's tail that is widely used as a mascot and national personification of Singapore.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Raffles Place and Clifford Pier.
Raffles Place
Neighborhood
Raffles Place is the centre of the Financial District of Singapore and is located south of the mouth of the Singapore River. It was first planned and developed in the 1820s as Commercial Square to serve as the hub of the commercial zone of Singapore in Raffles Town Plan.
Clifford Pier
Neighborhood
Clifford Pier was a former pier located beside Collyer Quay at Marina Bay within the Downtown Core of the Central Area, Singapore. The pier, which opened in 1933, ceased operations in 2006.
Boat Quay
Neighborhood
Photo: MichaelJanich, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Boat Quay is a historical quay in Singapore which is situated upstream from the mouth of the Singapore River on its southern bank. It spans from the shophouses near UOB Plaza, stretching along one bank of the Singapore River, up until Elgin Bridge.
Raffles Place
- Categories: metro station and underground station
- Location: Singapore, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Raffles Place” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “莱佛士坊地铁站”
- Chinese: “萊佛士坊地鐵站”
- Chinese: “萊佛士坊站”
- Dutch: “Raffles Place”
- Finnish: “Raffles Placen metroasema”
- French: “Raffles Place”
- German: “Station Raffles Place (MRT Singapur)”
- Indonesian: “Stasiun MRT Raffles Place”
- Japanese: “ラッフルズ・プレイス駅”
- Korean: “래플스플레이스역”
- Korean: “래플즈 플레이스 역”
- Malay: “Stesen MRT Raffles Place”
- Polish: “Raffles Place”
- Tamil: “ராஃபிள்ஸ் பிளேஸ் தொடருந்து நிலையம்”
- Tamil: “ராஃபிள்ஸ் பிளேஸ் ரயில் நிலையம்”
- Wu Chinese: “莱佛士坊地铁站”
- Yue Chinese: “萊佛士坊站”
- “Raffles Place MRT station”
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