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Hong Lim Park

Tourist attraction Park

Public garden central to the city's storytelling legacy, hosting performances & political rallies. People often mention park, Park, Nice, nice, Singapore, small, area, relax, Hong,


Address

New Bridge Rd, Singapore 059299

Website

www.nparks.gov.sg

Contact

+65 1800 471 7300

Rating on Google Maps

4.20 (827 reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Friday: Open 24 hours
  • Saturday: Open 24 hours
  • Sunday: Open 24 hours
  • Monday: Open 24 hours
  • Tuesday: Open 24 hours
  • Wednesday: Open 24 hours
  • Thursday: Open 24 hours

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  • 5/5 MaxDeGiraffe 1 year ago on Google
    Came here to witness the pink dot 2022 today. So crowded but very organise. Good job!
    5 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Eric C. 4 years ago on Google • 1134 reviews
    Big open space in the heart of the City and CBD. Nice place to relax during lunch and in the evenings. It's a historical location.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 Athena Tan Yi M. 6 years ago on Google
    It's basically an empty plot of land unless an event is occurring such as the annual Pink Dot event, which I attended for the latest version (Pink Dot 2017). It was quite eye-opening and fun as well. A note though, foreigners aren't allowed into Speaker's Corner at Hong Lim Park, a government policy. It's Singaporeans and PRs only, sorry tourists! 😦
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Crystal A. 4 years ago on Google
    Don’t forget to pet the park’s manjah attention seeking orange-white tom cat!
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 serene s. 1 year ago on Google
    Wonderful huge space, perfect for any event! Hosts many people
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 David Y. 1 year ago on Google
    Nice place to relax during evening.
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Tony G. 1 year ago on Google
    It’s a beautiful harmony with the nature and building
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Juergen M. 6 months ago on Google • 754 reviews
    Hong Lim Park is a very nice area to relax or for meeting friends. Very clean and well maintained. Lovely greens an a lot of trees and flowers.

  • 5/5 Regu P. 5 months ago on Google • 706 reviews
    They had an environmental awareness event. Great effort put up by the students

  • 5/5 For P. 6 months ago on Google • 614 reviews
    Nice big park. The sun sets behind some surrounding buildings so it is nice and cool towards the evening.

  • 5/5 Mark B. 11 months ago on Google • 37 reviews
    Awesome park with a quite atmosphere, and an amazing view on the Park Royal hotel.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Joebert Z. 3 years ago on Google
    Good place to sit around
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 MybOy T. 1 year ago on Google
    Nice pack with great history 👍😊
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Jason B. 6 months ago on Google • 261 reviews
    Hong Lim Park is a nice place to relax. Pretty flowers and lots of trees, grass and other vegitation. Also close to MRT and bus. It's quite nice.

  • 5/5 Neo Sree (NeoSree S. 6 months ago on Google • 230 reviews
    A very spacious park in the central area of Singapore with large open space. It has historical and political significance as well. The chairs around the park were useful for me to simply sit and relax when I was staying at a hostel nearby. - Reviewed by NeoSree. Look for "NeoSree Stories" on YouTube/Insta/FB/TikTok/Twitter for travel/infotainment videos.

  • 5/5 Food L. 9 months ago on Google • 133 reviews
    Yass!!! Came here for pink dot and the experience was so good. The air definitely feels different with love

  • 5/5 Benjamin Tan Yong W. 2 months ago on Google • 43 reviews New
    Excellent pull-ups bar rig. Which is high enough to set up gymnastics rings. But as much as the public is alloa to use the pull-ups bar. Unlike other fitness corner this is consider an outdoor pull-ups bar area for impact gym. Hence, they never build any other common fitness corner training bar like the dip bar, ladder, push up bar, incline pull up bar, bench and more. Correct me if I am wrong but do give it a try. You will definitely look the bar doing pull workout or any hanging core workout. Nearby, there is an public toilet to use also. It's well maintained, I guess once a while it will be clean by a cleaner. It's nice area to wash my hands after training.

  • 5/5 raja s. 5 months ago on Google • 27 reviews
    One of the greenest places near by financial district. Such a quiet and cosy place for you to step aside and take a break from all the buzzing noise.

  • 5/5 Keithunion 1. 1 year ago on Google
    I went to the Little Pink Dot event 2022 during June holidays and I'm happy that 377A is repeal this year

  • 3/5 Lawyer To H. 2 years ago on Google
    A place meant to symbolise freedom of speech (LOL!!!) and to function as a venue for sanctioned 'protests' (for which you need to apply a Police permit, and will almost always never get) in Singapore. A pure tokenist measure by the govt and very well-manicured... and full of a thousand police cameras (: You have been warned.

  • 4/5 Yap S. 2 years ago on Google
    Very small and quiet park. Unless you want to go there and kpkb government. There's a police station, gym and public toilet

  • 5/5 Rohan B. 4 years ago on Google
    Awesome

  • 5/5 golam r. 2 years ago on Google
    Nice place to spend some time

  • 4/5 ladeyo l. 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) Clean. Beautiful. Comfortable. (Original) Bersih. Indah. Nyaman.

  • 3/5 Anne C. 2 years ago on Google
    Very small park near Chinatown n Clark Quay mrt Station.

  • 4/5 Agil A. 2 years ago on Google
    It's a good park with limited facilities. There's no public toilet.

  • 4/5 Prakasam a. 1 year ago on Google
    Hong Lim Park is a site for storytelling and a place that tells Singapore’s story. Of historical and national significance, the park was originally named after the first Superintendent of Police, Thomas Dunman. But in 1876, the park’s name was changed to Hong Lim Green in honour of Cheang Hong Lim, a wealthy businessman who donated the land, making it Singapore's first privately-owned public garden. Through its history, the park has served as an important recreational area in Chinatown and is still the venue today for many community events. It started its storytelling tradition during the Japanese Occupation. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was used as a cricket ground by members of the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club and the Singapore Cricket Club, and in the 1960s and 1970s, the storytelling resumed in another medium as Chinese operas were performed on the stage. The park also served as the venue of many of Singapore’s first political rallies. In September 2000, in recognition of the park’s storytelling and political legacy, the Singapore Government designated the park as the venue for Speakers' Corner. How to get there: By MRT, stop at Clarke Quay station, Exit A Park size: 0.97 hectares Park lighting hours: 7.00pm to 7.00am Nearby Parks/Park Connectors: Duxton Plain Park, Pearl’s Hill City Park, Fort Canning Park Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible

  • 5/5 不倒翁 4 years ago on Google
    Good

  • 4/5 Shyann H. 1 year ago on Google
    nearby there's a hawker centre called "芳龄公园" (i think). i would say that it is worth going there. the prawn noodle there, the stall with the green bowls, is a must try. i also feel obligated to give sk11 muffins a shoutout since it was my childhood food. but now i have upgraded to prawn noods :) minus 1 star because 吃那里吃到 sian. no other reason. also go there cuz i saw a huang xing qiao lookalike there (one time thing tho).

  • 5/5 Nirshan I. 1 year ago on Google
    Small park to hangout for a while, if you play PokemonGo or Ingress, it's an ideal and convenient location for a meetup

  • 4/5 Linda C. 7 months ago on Google
    Nice and awesome place with a park, stage, Impact-PAP etc

  • 5/5 ,Stella T. 4 months ago on Google • 7 reviews
    Nice place to hv a gathering

  • 5/5 Thibaut M. 4 years ago on Google
    Clean and beautiful

  • 3/5 NH 4 years ago on Google
    This is a rather small and simple park located near to Chinatown. Clean and well maintained. A good place to rest and get away from the bustling city. Speakers' Corner is also located here.

  • 5/5 Richard Y. 4 years ago on Google
    Beautifully maintained park with CrossFit bars and tyres to flip!

  • 5/5 Manoj Thushara W. 4 years ago on Google
    Nice relaxing place in the urban jungle

  • 5/5 Shao Wei T. 4 years ago on Google
    The only place you can protest in Singapore. Better than nothing I guess. It's a decent place, a bit small though.

  • 5/5 Daryl C. 4 years ago on Google
    great place to promote free speech

  • 5/5 Daniel S. 4 years ago on Google
    Beautiful park adjacent to a very modern building that houses a garden on each floor.

  • 5/5 Sam A. 3 years ago on Google
    App add 2

  • 3/5 Colette T. 4 years ago on Google
    Actually quite small

  • 5/5 Contrarian 3 years ago on Google
    SG's most democratic place with CCTV at every corner of the park.

  • 4/5 Li En H. 3 years ago on Google
    Worth taking some photos

  • 4/5 SeowChow S. 3 years ago on Google
    Quiet and nice park to relax.

  • 4/5 nextstopFAM 3 years ago on Google
    Peaceful green in the middle of the city. Good place to stop and rest during walks around the neighborhood.

  • 4/5 Arlene S. 3 years ago on Google
    Beautiful modern area near a green building.

  • 5/5 Stanley L. 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) The small green space in the city also has the MRT station and the bus station, and the transportation is convenient. (Original) 城市中的小綠地,又有捷運站、公車站,交通方便四通八達。

  • 4/5 Jorge Andrès U. 4 years ago on Google
    Excellent and Nice!!

  • 4/5 Frankie C. 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) The small park in the downtown area, like Heidelberg Park in London, England, but the scale is much smaller. As a lot of elephants, there are more places to eat. (Original) 闹市中的小公园,像英国伦敦的海德堡公园,但是规模小的多。作为大象很多,吃东西的地方更多。

  • 4/5 Benedict S. 4 years ago on Google
    Nice and clean park. I watched the Annular Solar Eclipce 26 Dec 2019 here

  • 3/5 Chong Zhi C. 4 years ago on Google
    Open green in the CBD.

  • 5/5 Tan Kim S. 4 years ago on Google
    Nice place

  • 5/5 Gendhis J. 4 years ago on Google
    Honestly, I am not sure what kind of place this is and what can we do here because I was just lost at that time and took a rest here haha. It was like a wide garden. It has really wide park and it was quiet. There were trees so it was cool. You can have a walk or jogging here, I guess, with your kids or even babies in stroller is a good idea.

  • 4/5 Trent E. 4 years ago on Google
    Good place for morning exercises, either on the grass or under the cover of raining. Also a small padded floor section that's handy. Quite close to the river for onward running.

  • 4/5 suhaw k. 4 years ago on Google
    Hyde park aspirant in the little red dot

  • 3/5 M D. 4 years ago on Google
    It was good

  • 5/5 tirza luna a. 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) Very nice (Original) Bagus

  • 4/5 YP t. 4 years ago on Google
    yummy

  • 4/5 Harsukhdeep S. 4 years ago on Google
    No dabout it's nice place . Every facilities available their .

  • 5/5 miguel v. 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) Refreshing place to spend some time before taking the MRT (Original) Refrescante lugar para pasar el tiempo un rato antes de tomar el MRT

  • 4/5 Detlef R. 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) Nice little park with Speakers Corner, the view of Parkroyal on Pickering Hotel is unique. 15,000 square meters are greened here. (Original) Netter kleiner Park mit Speakers Corner, der Blick auf Parkroyal on Pickering Hotel ist einmalig. 15.000 qm sind hier begrünt.

  • 5/5 De Rong T. 4 years ago on Google
    A park for protest if u apply permit with police

  • 1/5 Ravin d. 3 years ago on Google
    Peaceful during weekends


Call +65 1800 471 7300 Open on Google Maps

Amenities


  • Pets
    • ✓️ Dogs allowed
  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible car park
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible entrance

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