Toa Payoh Garden

Toa Payoh Interchange

Toa Payoh Tree Temple

Lian Shan Monastery

Toa payoh 40 storey Building.







Toa Payoh has many different cultures and a legend behind everything. The first place which has an air-condition interchange is located at Toa Payoh central. At toa payoh central, we have a famous tree temple and now Toa Payoh is the only place which have the tree temple. Over the years, Lian Shan Monastery had being a target for tourism.

It is also a place where my family and I would gather together every weekend for dinner. Over there, they sell delicious food. They also had a number of fast food restaurants. Although I don’t stay in toa payoh, but still, for Chinese new year preparation, my family and I would go there and shop for grocery. It is a place where you can find a lot of mini shop with affordable clothes, accessories etc. My impression about toa payoh when I was very young is when my mum first bought me there to but my New Year clothes when I was the age of 5 at that time, I found that the place is so dirty and stuffy and I hate. But guess what? As I grew older, I begin to like and get use to it.

Toa Payoh has a lot of old estate and now it had been upgraded to beautiful buildings. One of the famous hdb flat in Toa Payoh is the 40th building because it is the first hdb flat that had a sky garden. You can see nice scenery at night. Toa Payoh also had a heart of compassion because it is the first KFC that hire deaf workers. It touches my heart when I got to know this news.
Toa payoh is a hang out place for me and my friends. The place we often hang out is known as “entertainment.” As long as someone mentions that place, people definitely know where it is. I like Toa Payoh’s environment and its beautiful sight when it reaches the night.
Great leisure, Great facilities. That is what Toa Payoh is make up of!

Posted by : angela 5n2

Hello Friends,
I am very glad to be a part of this trail.
I lived in Toapayoh(TPY) since 5-6years ago when
me and my family moved house here from Woodlands.
Said Bye to Woodland & Said Hi to Tpy,
when i was 12years old that year and then was studying
in one of the neighbourhood school nearby, Kheng Cheng School.
Once i asked my mum what is the reason that made us
moved to TPY. She replied : cause is more convenient
to travel from TPY to other places(: TPY is just like in the
center of th Singapore mapp & for her the most important
reason is : we doesnt need to travel for about an hour plus
to myy grandma house every weekendd.
started to agree with her, when i got myy first job
last year at takashimaya (Orchard) :D I dint have to
wake upp so early to prepare for work compared to
some of myy working friends, cause myy travel time
from tpy to orchard is only needs to take about half an hour(:
Other then is convenient ; those people who i got to know
in TPY, they are friendly, caring, and nice toos (:
I love ToaPayoh ! okays , Let me begin to describe
TOAPAYOH :D
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Toa Payoh in the Hokkien dialect means "big swamp land".
The word 'Payoh' originates from the Malay word 'paya' for swamp.
This extensive district was quite notorious for the numerous
squatters who were mainly engaged in farming and rearing pigs.
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Toa Payoh town is just 6km away from the city centre.
It is well-served by the expressways and major roads
as well as excellent public transportation. The town is
bounded by Braddell Road and Bartley Road to the north,
Upper Paya Lebar Road to the east, MacPherson Road
and Jalan Toa Payoh to the south and Thomson Road to the west.
There are Two MRT stations within the town,
namely, Toa Payoh MRT station and Braddell MRT station.
Situated above Toa Payoh MRT station is the
new air-conditioned Toa Payoh Bus Interchange,
itself integrated with the HDB Centre. The bus interchange
is a major transportation hub serving not only the needs
of town residents in and around Toa Payoh,
but also links residents to other parts of the Singapore.
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Toa Payoh has developed a distinct character through the years.
The area bustles with activity and is a great place to soak into
the local lifestyle. Both residents/visitors will impress themselves
with a wide range of merchandise, food and entertainment options.
Here you can pick up garments at attractively low prices-
T-shirts and shorts at SGD 10 for three items or
children's clothes for as little as SGD 2. Toa Payoh town centre
has its own cinemas, hawker centres, coffee shops,
foodcourts, fast food restraurant like Macdonal, Kfc,
Mos burger, Burger king... ... a community library
and a nearby neighbourhood park.
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Dont forget to
explore the first L-shaped shopping mall built in the 1960s!
In the 1920s, Toa Payoh was a vast stretch of swampy
land with vegetable farms, fishponds and dwelling huts.
It was a notorious squatter district then; until the early 1960s
when the squatters moved out and clearing work was able
to commence. That was when the redevelopment started.
Toa Payoh was the first prototype town centre in Singapore.
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Within walking distance of Toa Payoh MRT Station
is the Lian Shan Shuang Lin Si ("Twin Grove of Lotus Mountain Temple"),
located at 184E Jalan Toa Payoh. Whilst the rest of the temples
featured in this website have Taoist origins,
this temple commemorates the birth and demise of Buddha.
Construction of the temple took about 11 years to complete
(from 1898 to 1908)and it was funded by a Hokkien merchant
by the name of Low Kim Pong, who was a devout Buddhist .
The temple sits on 2 hectares of land.
It has an elaborately decorated gateway which opens
in a courtyard with exquisitely carved Buddhas.
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There's still some more places/thing in Tpy that
made it special, but now is already 1.3oam and
I will still need to go school tomorrow morning for
lessons, will update more next time , sorryy D:
anws I took some photos from googles and yahoo.
It will shows you how Tpy looks like in the past
andd how does it looks like now. for info :
I put caption on the photo that i going to upload.
goodnights friends (: JOLYN 5N2 ~
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Toa Payoh Trail

Hi~Everyone!!!

I live in Toa Payoh since i came to Singapore until now. I am very grad this is where I live. It's a good and convenient place to live. Toa Payoh provides us a better environment and gives us a better standard of living.

For example, Toa Payoh interchange is the first air-conditioned bus interchange in the country, which was completed in 2002 and officially opened by then Transport Minister.

The interchange has many bus routes ,so it is very convenient if you need to go to anywhere in Singapore.Besides the bus , it has a direct connection from the bus interchange to the Toa Payoh MRT Station on the North South Line.

The bus interchange also participated in the Exercise Northstar V( Anti-Terrorism Exercise) on January 8, 2006.

Except of the convenient transportantion, Toa Payoh is also providing quality healthcare,such as clinics,hospitals and medical research facilities. For instance, Singapore Chung Hwa Medical Institution.

Chung Hwa Medical Institution is one of the most established not-for-profit providers of complementary TCM services in Singapore. It was established in 1952 and currently operates 4 clinics in the country. It is associated with Singapore Chinese Physicians Association, the largest TCM practitioner organisation in Singapore.It also is the largest traditional Chinese medicine academic organization in Singapore.

Toa payoh polyclinics also is example. It is near my house and I would like to go there when I was sick. It also gives good services and medical amenities.

Toa Payoh Town Park is also the first park in Singapore.It was developed in the 1970. It was a very popular for wedding couples, especially those recapturing fashion of the 1970s. The main features of the park are the observation tower and the landscaped pond surrounded by willowing trees. Today, the Toa Payoh Town is now furnished with amenities such as open-concept restrooms, a large pavilion with stage for organized activities, rustic-looking gazebos for the relaxation of visitors and brightly coloured pathways for an enjoyable stroll or jog around the park. The observation tower has also been rejuvenated.

It also is a good place for leisure. We always can see many senior citizens came to the park and chat or jogging.

And the last,

This is the scene taken from 11th floor in my house. I like it very much!!! cause there is a small shop at downstairs. And it sells many many many .................................good things.....................haha!!!!!!!!!!!!!^_^

Done by Huang Bailu 5N1

I like going to Toa Payoh, especially the town centre. It is surrounded by separated neighbourhoods, each with its own shopping amenities and community centres, well served by a network of vehicular roads and generous open space separating them.

Nevertheless, with time, the Toa Payoh Town Centre has become increasingly popular. It has a busy atmosphere because, as with many shopping malls of the time, all commercial activities are concentrated along a single mall with high point blocks on either side and major department stores at each end. The shopping mall has two plazas, one with a branch library and cinema, the other with an area office and a post office. Each plaza has a department store at either end.

The HDB Hub comprises two wings, an atrium, four commercial building blocks, a leisure and learning centre and a three-storey basement parking lot. The building also accommodates Singapore's first fully air-conditioned Toa Payoh Bus Interchange and integrates it with the existing Toa Payoh MRT Station.

Choy Kar Yen 5n1

toa payoh.

hello people!

honestly, i don't know much about toa payoh. i don't really come here that much unless i come to school of course. but after finding out more information of the place where my school is, i found it a more interesting place. judging by the previous posts by my schoolmates, i guess everyone already knows that toa payoh in hokkien is 'big swamp'. there is also a cemetry that was previously in the area and the area is well known for that cemetry. creepy.. but that is toa payoh in the olden days. how is toa payoh like now? well, toa payoh is a very convenient place for everyone. there are many housing estates, residential blocks and skyscrapers. many residents move here due to the conveniency of this area. at toa payoh central, there is a bus interchange where there are many different bus services. there is also an mrt station at toa payoh. entertainment can also be found in toa payoh. there is a building 'Entertainment Centre', where there is a cinema and an arcade. there are many food varieties too, for those who are food-lovers like myself. there are many different hawkers selling their food speciality from their ethnic groups. yum yum. for those who love to work out and keep themselves fit and in shape, there is also a stadium, sports hall and swimming complex. there is also a town park nearby and you can take a walk or just feed the fishes. for bookworms, there is also a library. sometimes, there will also be 'pasar malam (night market)'. for other entertainment or recreational activities, SAFRA also provides such activities. there are also many fast-food outlets in toa payoh too, for those who prefers fast and convenient food. there are also supermarkets like NTUC Fairprice and Shop & Save in the toa payoh area.

frankly speaking, i think that the residents in toa payoh are very lucky to live here as it is so convenient for them.

Nicky (3E2)