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Bishan New Town, Singapore — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Bishan New Town, also known as Peck San, is a planned residential town at the most central point of Singapore, in the Central Region.
About Bishan New Town
Where to stay in Bishan New Town
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Three subzones split the choice. Bishan East, Marymount and Thomson each hold a share of the town's housing, and the private residential properties scattered among the planned blocks give a visitor more variety of address than most towns of this kind manage. Central is the whole point.
A bed in Bishan leaves Ang Mo Kio, Toa Payoh and Serangoon each one boundary away, which suits anyone crossing Singapore daily rather than staying put.
About Bishan New Town
What are the main landmarks in Bishan New Town?
Bishan Sports Hall is the listed landmark. It stands as the single entry the record keeps for a town laid out from 1983 onward, which is what a planned residential area tends to leave behind: facilities rather than monuments. Flats take up everything else.
The Bishan East, Marymount and Thomson subzones carry flats alongside private residential properties, and the Central Water Catchment along the western boundary supplies a green edge that no building in Bishan could match.
What is the history of Bishan New Town?
The town dates from 1983. Bishan was laid out as a planning area in the northernmost portion of the Central Region, and the name Peck San belongs to the same ground in an older form. Planning drew the lines.
What came of it is a town of three subzones, Bishan East, Marymount and Thomson, bounded by Ang Mo Kio and Toa Payoh, by Serangoon and by the Central Water Catchment, with private residential properties filling in among the planned blocks afterwards.
Where is Bishan New Town?
Bishan sits at the most central point of Singapore, bordered by Ang Mo Kio and Toa Payoh, with Serangoon to the east and the Central Water Catchment west.
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Updated August 2026