Guides · 3 min read · 7 November 2026

Skybridges and Roof Gardens, Mostly Free

A 50th-storey skybridge, a timber wave of a bridge and free roof gardens, plus a waterfall and plane-spotting galleries, with how to get in.

For a real skybridge, go to Pinnacle@Duxton, where the 50th-storey skybridge is open to the public for S$6. The catch is the quota: only 150 visitors a day and 50 at a time, so we'd go on a weekday morning. The free pick is Henderson Waves, below, and the rest of this page is gardens on rooftops and decks, most of them free and all of them with a view.

The 50th floor, and a wave

You register your name and contact number at the kiosk in Block 1G, Cantonment Road, pay by NETS or card, and ride the lift to the 50th storey. The QR receipt works once, within an hour of registering. This is a residential estate, so keep your voice down. The bridge is open from 9am to 9pm every day.

Henderson Waves is the free answer: a 274-metre timber bridge between Mount Faber and Telok Blangah Hill, and the tallest pedestrian bridge in Singapore. Telok Blangah MRT is closer than HarbourFront. Come in the morning, when it's cooler and the birds are out, or after 7pm, when the LED lights pick out the seven ribs that form alcoves along the walkway.

Roof gardens in the city

CapitaSpring Green Oasis and Sky Garden is free, but you book a slot. Visits run on weekdays from 8.30am to 10.30am and from 2.30pm to 6pm, and it's closed at weekends and on public holidays. The Green Oasis fills Levels 17 to 20, and the 1-Arden Sky Garden is on Level 51. We'd book a morning slot.

City Hall MRT serves two more. The Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Gallery on Level 5 of National Gallery Singapore needs no ticket, and it has skyline views, reflective pools and a changing large-scale commission. It's open from 10am to 7pm, and the Padang and Coleman Deck on Level 6 is also free. The Funan Roof Garden is a lawn on Level R, reached from Lobby B, open 10am to 10pm like the mall. Bring food and drink up to the benches and tables, and keep off the grass.

ION Sky on Levels 55 and 56 of ION Orchard has no observatory ticket, because the view comes with the 1-Atico lounge. Take the lifts from ION Art on Level 4, and look for the hours on the mall's website.

Open decks and barrage roofs

At Marina Bay, the Green Roof of Marina Barrage is a grassy slope over the reservoir that's open round the clock. Bring your own kite, since nobody sells them here. Gardens by the Bay MRT or bus 400 gets you there.

At The Kallang, the Great Eastern Promenade is an 888-metre sheltered track on Level 3 that circles the National Stadium. It's free, open at all hours and rain-proof, so it works when the roof gardens are too hot or too wet. Take Exit B at Stadium MRT and go up.

Waterfalls and runways

Jewel Rain Vortex is the world's tallest indoor waterfall, and watching it from the Forest Valley is free from 10am to 10pm. We'd come for an evening Light & Music Showcase, which runs at 8pm and 9pm from Monday to Thursday, with a 10pm show added from Friday to Sunday and on public holidays and their eves.

Over in Changi, the Changi Airport Viewing Malls are galleries in the public areas of Terminals 1, 3 and 4, where you can sit and watch aircraft on the tarmac. All three stay open 24 hours, so a late or early visit is easy.