In shortBoat Quay is free to enter, at Boat Quay. Checked November 2026.
Nightlife · free
Duration
1 hour
The take
A row of original shophouses on the river bend, with less neon than upriver at Clarke Quay. Walk it at dusk, then drink one street back, where the better bars are.
Good to know
A conservation area since 1989, lined with the warehouses and shophouses of the old river trade
Called the belly of the carp by the Chinese, for the wide river bend where good fortune was said to gather
The riverbank was filled with earth from the Battery Road hillock, in what became Singapore's first development project
Finding it: Boat Quay, on the south bank of the Singapore River, in the historic district bounded by South Bridge Road, Circular Road, Lorong Telok and North Canal Road
Address checked November 2026
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