Heritage Trails :: Ang Mo Kio Trail :: Ang Mo Kio Town Garden East

The first town garden to be built in Ang Mo Kio, this 4.89-hectare garden was planned and developed between the late 1970s and early 1980s. This is also one of the few public places in Singapore where red brick paths, a popular design style in the 1970s, are still in use.

Ang Mo Kio Town Garden East is one of the last remnants of the former rural settlement, referred to as Cheng Sua Lai (Hokkien: Green Hills Interior), before the housing town was built.

The garden was largely built on an existing hillock. Scattered around the grounds are sculptures of giant rubber and nutmeg seeds, which remind visitors of the former agricultural use of the land in Ang Mo Kio as rubber plantations. Today, you can still see some clusters of old rubber trees standing in the garden. Besides rubber trees, groves of nutmeg, fruit and cinnamon trees are also found here.