The nearest MRT Station to our GHotel is Outram Park MRT Station.



Outram Park MRT Station (EW16/NE3) is an interchange station of the North East Line and the East West Line in Singapore. It is located in the Central Area, Singapore's central business district. It is the nearest MRT station to G Hotel which is located at Teck Lim Road, Chinatown.

On the North East Line, it is between the Chinatown and the HarbourFront MRT Stations. On the East West Line, it is located between the Tanjong Pagar and Tiong Bahru MRT stations. It is built directly underneath the convergence of three roads: Eu Tong Sen Street, Cantonment Road and Outram Road. The station has four basements and is not a cross platform so commuters have to transfer from one platform to another via an underpass, since the North East Line was not built until much later.

On lunch time hours from 12pm to 2pm on weekdays except public holidays, there would be special lunch time services that start from this station and end at Aljunied MRT Station. This service started on May 20, 2008.[1]

One of the more prominent areas it serves (in addition to the district of Outram) is Chinatown. Although the present Chinatown MRT Station is now closer to Chinatown, this station was the closest MRT station within the vicinity of Chinatown before the North East line was built. It is just beside Pearl's Hill Reservoir.

Its location in the Central Area puts the station in proximity to a number of public buildings. These include the Singapore General Hospital as well as multitude of public health buildings under Singapore Health Services (SingHealth), including the Singapore National Eye Centre, the National Heart Centre and the National Dental Centre. It also within walking distance to the Central Narcotics Bureau and the Police Cantonment Complex.

This station features artwork from two different artists. The first, The Commuters by Teo Eng Seng, can be found at the linkway between the East West Line platform and the North East Line platforms. The second, Memories by Wang Lu Sheng, are placed at the entrances leading to the North East Line part of the station.

A plaque relating the history of the Outram Park prison can be found outside of the station. The prison no longer exists as residential blocks (HDB) have been built where the prison once stood.

In the initial stages of planning for the North East Line was in the late 1980s and the early 1990s, this was initially planned to be the southern terminus of the line. But in 1993, the LTA decided to extend the NEL to HarbourFront Station (then called World Trade Centre Station), after noting that many people liked to go to the World Trade Centre (the present day HarbourFront Centre).

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