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Singapore Zoo
Award-winning tropical zoo using open-concept enclosures set within a lush rainforest environment.
5 km · about 10 min drive
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Yew Tee
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About Yew Tee
Yew Tee works well as a base: 5km from Singapore Zoo.
Yew Tee is in Singapore, with about 39,000 people. You drive on the left here.
Yew Tee MRT station is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the North–South Line (NSL) in Yew Tee, Singapore. Operated by SMRT Corporation, the station serves various nearby landmarks such as Unity Secondary School and Yew Tee Point. Like most stations on the Woodlands extension, it has a kampong-styleRead more
roof and a colour scheme designed to blend in with its surroundings.
The station was first announced as Choa Chu Kang North in February 1991, where it would be built as part of the Woodlands extension of the NSL. It was renamed Yew Tee in November 1991. Construction for Yew Tee began by July 1993 and was completed in October 1994. Yew Tee station opened on 10 February 1996. Half-height platform screen doors and high-volume low-speed fans were installed by August 2011 and the first quarter of 2013, respectively.
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Within an hour or so of Yew Tee: Singapore Zoo (5 km), Singapore Botanic Gardens (12 km), Haw Par Villa (13 km), Little India (15 km).
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Yew Tee is in Singapore.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 39,100
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Singapore
- Timezone
- Asia/Singapore
- Coordinates
- 1.3966, 103.7474
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Worth the detour from Yew Tee
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Singapore Botanic Gardens
A UNESCO World Heritage tropical garden featuring the National Orchid Garden with over 1,000 species and hybrids of orchids.
12 km · about 20 min drive
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Haw Par Villa
A 1937 theme park built by the Tiger Balm brothers, best known for the Ten Courts of Hell: lurid dioramas of Buddhist punishments in painted concrete. Entry is free and it remains defiantly strange.
13 km · about 25 min drive
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Little India
Singapore's most colorful and aromatic neighborhood with Hindu temples, spice shops, flower garlands, and authentic South Indian cuisine.
15 km · about 30 min drive
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Clarke Quay
A colorful riverside quay in Singapore transformed into a vibrant nightlife and dining hub with restored warehouses along the Singapore River.
16 km · about 20 min drive
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Tiong Bahru Market
A two-storey hawker centre in Singapore's oldest housing estate, where stalls such as Jian Bo Shui Kueh and Hong Heng prawn noodles have traded for decades. Wet market below, food centre above.
16 km · about 30 min drive
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National Gallery Singapore
Southeast Asia's largest visual arts institution, housed in two beautifully restored national monuments.
17 km · about 20 min drive
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Singapore Chinatown
A vibrant district blending traditional Chinese temples, heritage shophouses, bustling hawker centers, and modern bars along Pagoda Street.
17 km · about 20 min drive
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Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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