Things to Do With Kids in Kranji, Lim Chu Kang and Tengah, Singapore (2026): Farms, Wetlands and a Town Still Being Built

18 September 2026 · 15 min read

Before you take a child to Singapore's only goat farm, you have to be sure they have not been to a cow farm in the past month. Hay Dairies asks it of every visitor, for the goats' sake, and it is printed on the farm's own visitor page. It is also a fair summary of this corner of the island: a working countryside with real rules, twenty minutes from a shopping centre and nothing like it.

Kranji and Lim Chu Kang are the last of that countryside. More than 800 goats live here, and they queue at the milking parlour every morning between nine and half past ten without being led. Children scoop fish out of a concrete channel with a net. And twenty minutes south, Tengah is the opposite problem: Singapore's newest HDB town, two malls, two green corridors, thousands of flats, and no MRT station until 2028.

Nine of the 14 places below cost nothing. The rest are cheap. What they have in common is that they punish a badly planned trip, because farms close on a weekday, some of them take bookings only, and one of the best known has shut for good since most guides were written. Every opening day, price and closure here was checked at the operator, NParks, HDB or LTA in September 2026.

If you are heading east afterwards, the Woodlands guide covers the next town along, and the Bukit Panjang and Choa Chu Kang guide covers the town you will drive through to get here.

Farms you can walk into

1. Hay Dairies Goat Farm

Photo: Hay Dairies, Jungle listing

Hay Dairies is the only goat farm in Singapore and has been since 1988. It keeps more than 800 goats on 250 Neo Tiew Crescent, and the thing worth planning around is the milking. Goats are milked between 9am and 10.30am, and they queue for it, each one walking to its own place at the parlour without being led. After 10.30am you get a farm full of goats lying in barns, which is pleasant but not the same.

Three rules catch people out. The farm is closed every Tuesday except public holidays. If your group is ten or more you must book in advance, or you will not be let in. And there is no car park at the farm: you park at the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve car park on Neo Tiew Crescent and walk in through the farm's pedestrian gate.

One more, which no other guide mentions. Hay Dairies asks that visitors have not been to any cow farm in the month before they come, for the goats' sake. That rules out pairing it with a dairy cattle farm on the same trip.

Why kids will love it: A packet of alfalfa hay costs $6 and buys you a queue of goats pushing their heads through the barn rails to get at it. Children who will not touch a dog will feed a goat, because the goat comes to them. Buy the hay before 3pm, when it stops being sold. Come at 9am for the milking and you will be out by 10.30am before it gets hot.

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Website: Hay Dairies, farm visit page (we are not linking it: the site currently carries injected spam links, so search for the farm by name instead)
Address: 250 Neo Tiew Crescent, Singapore 719866. Google Maps
Opening hours: 9am to 4pm, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Closed every Tuesday except public holidays.
Price: Free for walk-in groups under ten. Alfalfa hay $6 a packet. Groups of ten or more must pre-book and are charged.
Getting there: 4.1km from Kranji MRT (NS7). On Sundays and public holidays take SMRT bus 925M from Kranji MRT to the Wetland Centre entrance and cross the road to the farm gate. On other days drive and park at the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve Neo Tiew Crescent car park, because the farm has no car park of its own.
Ages: 2 and up.

2. Qian Hu Fish Farm

Photo: Qian Hu Fish Farm, Jungle listing

Qian Hu is a working ornamental fish exporter at 71 Jalan Lekar that lets the public wander through it for nothing. The retail hall holds tank after tank of dragon fish, flowerhorns and discus, and outside there is a longkang fishing channel where children scoop fish out of shallow water with a net, exactly as an earlier generation did in real drains.

It is the easiest place in this guide to reach without a car, because the farm runs a free shuttle bus from Choa Chu Kang MRT every hour.

The longkang area is only partly sheltered, so a downpour ends the fishing. The fish spa is fully covered.

Why kids will love it: Thirty minutes with a net in ankle-deep water, and whatever they catch goes home in a plastic tank. It is the rare outing where the souvenir is alive. Bring a change of clothes, because the water wins. The fish spa, where small fish nibble your feet, is the part that makes seven-year-olds scream and then queue again.

View on Jungle: Qian Hu Fish Farm
Website: Qian Hu, visitor information
Address: 71 Jalan Lekar, Sungei Tengah, Singapore 698950. Google Maps
Opening hours: Monday to Friday and eve of public holiday 9am to 6pm, last transaction 5.45pm. Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 9am to 7pm, last transaction 6.45pm. Open seven days.
Price: Free to enter, free parking. Longkang fishing and the fish spa are charged, and the farm publishes group rates only: $10 a head for 45 minutes of longkang fishing in a group of 20 or more on a weekday, $8 adult and $5 child for the fish spa. Contact the farm for the walk-in rate.
Getting there: Free hourly shuttle bus from Choa Chu Kang MRT (NS4/BP1) Exit C, Bus Bay 1, 9am to 5pm, last bus back at 7pm. By car it is 2.5km from the station.
Ages: 3 and up.

3. Nature Kindred Kid Farm, Sungei Tengah

Nature Kindred runs an indoor family activity space inside a wholesale plant nursery at 65 Sungei Tengah Road, a kilometre down the road from Qian Hu. The draw is that everything is booked by the session and everything is under a roof: kid fishing at a sheltered pond with fans and a toilet next to it, terrarium building and fossil digging in an air-conditioned craft room, and planting sessions in the nursery itself.

This is the one place in the guide built for a hot afternoon or a wet one. It is also the only Kranji-area venue in this post you can book through Jungle rather than by phone.

Note that Dig Dig Land, the excavator playground the same company is known for, is not here. It runs at Jurong Playground on Jurong Gateway Road.

Why kids will love it: Sitting still at the edge of a fish pond with a net, in the shade, with a fan on them, is a very different proposition from doing it in the sun. The fossil dig gives them something to chip out and keep, and the terrarium goes home on the back seat. Good for a four-year-old who cannot cope with a full farm morning.

Book on Jungle: Nature Kindred
Website: Nature Kindred, family experiences
Address: 65 Sungei Tengah Road, Singapore 699000. Google Maps
Opening hours: By booked session. Book through Jungle or the operator.
Price: Contact provider for pricing. The operator does not publish a rate card for the Sungei Tengah site.
Getting there: 2.6km from Choa Chu Kang MRT (NS4/BP1). Drive or taxi.
Ages: 1 to 17.

4. Bollywood Farms

A bird at Bollywood Farms. Photo: Anish Sheela, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Bollywood Farms, on 100 Neo Tiew Road, is the farm most people mean when they say they took the children to Kranji. Ivy Singh and Lim Ho Seng started it in 2000 and it was called Bollywood Veggies until the rename. It grows a few hundred edible plants, keeps a small food museum and runs Poison Ivy Bistro on the same site.

The opening hours need reading carefully, because they are not simple. Monday to Thursday the farm is given over to pre-booked private events and private dining. The published public windows are Wednesday to Friday 10am to 3pm, and Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 7am to 6pm. If you are going on a weekday, telephone first.

There is no public transport at all. The farm says so itself and tells visitors to take a taxi from Kranji MRT.

Why kids will love it: Banana trees taller than a house, papaya and tapioca growing in rows they are allowed to walk between, and the chance to find out that a pineapple grows out of the ground rather than on a tree. The weekend 7am opening is the real tip: come early, walk the plots while it is still cool, and eat breakfast at the bistro before the heat arrives.

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Website: Bollywood Farms
Address: 100 Neo Tiew Road, Singapore 719026. Google Maps
Opening hours: Wednesday to Friday 10am to 3pm. Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 7am to 6pm. Monday to Thursday is otherwise private pre-booked events and private dining only. Telephone 6898 5001 before a weekday visit.
Price: Free car park. Contact provider for pricing on tours and workshops.
Getting there: 5.1km from Kranji MRT (NS7) and no bus. Drive, or take a taxi from the station.
Ages: 3 and up.

5. Gardenasia

Gardenasia sits at 240 Neo Tiew Crescent, next door to Hay Dairies, and it is the one place here that has quietly changed shape. Its bistro stopped daily service on 16 February 2026 and now runs as occasional chef-in-residence events. Its children's programmes, the terrarium and farm-to-table workshops, run for booked groups and schools rather than walk-ins. Three farmstay villas, built to look like colonial black and white houses, are the other reason to come.

Put plainly: do not drive out here on a Saturday hoping to walk in. There are no published walk-in opening hours on the site, and the page that used to carry them has gone.

Why kids will love it: The farmstay is the draw, and it is unusual. Three villas in the middle of the countryside, twenty minutes from a shopping centre and a world away from one, where a child wakes up to birds instead of traffic. For a birthday or a first night away from home it beats a hotel room.

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Website: Gardenasia
Address: 240 Neo Tiew Crescent, Singapore 718898. Google Maps
Opening hours: By booking only. No walk-in hours are published. Telephone 6898 9111.
Price: Contact provider for pricing.
Getting there: 4km from Kranji MRT (NS7). Drive or taxi.
Ages: 4 and up.

Free green space, and the three that are in the Woodlands guide

6. Kranji Reservoir Park

Kranji Reservoir Park looks north across the Johor Strait. Photo: Jnzl, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

Kranji Reservoir Park is 9 hectares of NParks land along Kranji Way, looking north across the Johor Strait at Malaysia. It is flat, grassy, has two free car parks and is the easiest free stop to combine with a farm morning. There is a war memorial plaque here too, marking the Kranji Beach battle of February 1942.

Two things to know before you drive over. PUB has closed Fishing Ground B for maintenance until further notice, so the only place you can fish is Fishing Ground A by car park A. And unusually for an NParks park, pets are not allowed, because the reservoir is a drinking water catchment.

Why kids will love it: Open lawn with nothing on it, which is exactly what a child who has spent an hour being careful around goats needs. Bring a kite: the wind comes straight off the strait and there are no trees in the way. Older children who fish can bring a rod to Fishing Ground A. There is no playground, so this is a running-about park, not a climbing one.

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Website: NParks, Kranji Reservoir Park
Address: Along Kranji Way, Singapore. Google Maps
Opening hours: 7am to 7pm daily.
Price: Free. Both car parks free. Car park A has 20 lots, car park B has 50.
Getting there: 2.6km from Kranji MRT (NS7). Drive, or bus 925M on Sundays and public holidays.
Ages: All ages. No playground.

Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Kranji Marshes and Bukit Timah Saddle Club are all in this corner of Singapore, and all three have a full entry in the Woodlands guide rather than being repeated here. The short version: Sungei Buloh is 202 hectares of mangrove and mudflat, free, open 7am to 7pm with last entry at 6.30pm, and parts of it flood on a spring tide, which NParks signposts. Kranji Marshes is freshwater marsh with a 15-metre raptor tower. The Saddle Club at Kranji is the North's riding school and takes children from age 3 on a Sunday pony ride. Book or read more on Jungle: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Sungei Buloh Visitor Centre, Kranji Marshes and Bukit Timah Saddle Club.

Where the fighting stopped

7. Kranji War Memorial and Kranji War Cemetery

Kranji War Cemetery, with the Singapore Memorial above it. Photo: yann, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintains this hillside at 9 Woodlands Road, a kilometre south of Kranji MRT. It holds the graves of Commonwealth servicemen who died defending and occupying Singapore, and above them the Singapore Memorial, whose walls carry the names of the Commonwealth land and air force dead of this region who have no known grave. The State Cemetery next door holds two of Singapore's presidents.

The site is built on a hill and the only way up is three flights of steps rising more than four metres from the road, so a pushchair is difficult.

Be aware of one limit in this guide. The Commission's own website refused every attempt to read it from Singapore while this was being written, and the published gate times elsewhere disagree with each other by an hour and a half. Rather than print a time we could not verify, we have left it out.

Why kids will love it: Love is the wrong word, and it is worth saying so. This is quiet, and it works best for children of about eight and up who have started asking what happened here. The scale does the teaching: rows of identical headstones, then a wall of names of people who were never found. Twenty minutes is enough. Go early, because there is very little shade on the slope.

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Website: Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Address: 9 Woodlands Road, Singapore 738656. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open daily during daylight hours. No gate time is printed here because the Commission's own page could not be reached to confirm one.
Price: Free. The Commission does not charge admission at its cemeteries or memorials.
Nearest MRT: Kranji (NS7), 860 metres.
Ages: 8 and up.

Tengah, the town that is still arriving

Tengah is the first HDB town planned with smart technologies across the whole town from the start, and it is being built in five districts: Plantation, Garden, Park, Brickland and Forest Hill. Two of those five, Brickland and Forest Hill, are still at the stage where HDB says only that details will be shared in due course. There is no library, no ActiveSG swimming complex and no sports centre in Tengah. There is also no MRT station: LTA's Jurong Region Line opens in stages from 2028, the Tengah branch is in that 2028 stage, and the in-fill station inside Tengah itself is planned for the mid-2030s. Until then the town runs on buses from Tengah Bus Interchange and on Choa Chu Kang MRT, about 3km away.

What does exist is worth a morning, especially if you are deciding whether to move here.

8. Plantation Plaza

Tengah Boulevard at Tengah Drive in March 2026. Plantation Plaza stands on Tengah Drive. Photo: S5A-0043, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Plantation Plaza is Tengah's first neighbourhood centre and the closest thing the town has to a high street. HDB counts 75 shops across five levels and more than 10,000 square metres of retail, plus an open retail street of eateries running alongside the Plantation Farmway green connector. There is a supermarket, a food court and a Happy Fish swim school in it.

It is joined to the Plantation Village flats by sheltered linkways and sits within a ten-minute walk of every completed Tengah block, which is the point of it.

Why kids will love it: It is the indoor, air-conditioned half of a Tengah morning, and the retail street outside means you can eat without going back indoors. For families thinking about moving here, this is the building that answers the question of whether the town works yet. Go on a weekday morning and you will have it to yourselves.

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Website: HDB, Plantation Plaza
Address: Blocks 126A to 126C Tengah Drive and Blocks 127, 127A and 127B Plantation Crescent, Singapore 691126. Google Maps
Opening hours: Individual shop hours vary. The supermarket and food court keep mall hours.
Price: Free to enter.
Getting there: 3km from Choa Chu Kang MRT (NS4/BP1) by bus. No MRT station in Tengah until 2028.
Ages: All ages.

9. Parc Point

Tengah Bus Interchange, which Parc Point sits beside. Photo: S5A-0043, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Parc Point is Tengah's second mall, in the Park District, and it opened as a health and wellness centre rather than a shopping one. It has nearly 40 shops, a polyclinic, a food court and a supermarket, and HDB describes it as bringing wellness businesses and children's enrichment schools together under one roof.

The building itself is the interesting part for a visit. The shopping streets are naturally ventilated rather than air-conditioned, open to breeze and daylight, and they lead into a naturally lit community plaza. It sits next to Tengah Bus Interchange, which is how most people arrive.

Why kids will love it: An open-air mall is a novelty in Singapore and children notice it within a minute, because you can hear birds inside a shopping centre and feel wind on the escalator. The community plaza in the middle is flat, shaded and scooter-friendly. It is the coolest place in Tengah to sit at four in the afternoon without paying for anything.

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Website: HDB, Parc Point
Address: Blocks 302 and 302D Tengah Park Avenue and Block 300B Tengah Drive, Singapore 690302. Google Maps
Opening hours: Individual shop hours vary. The polyclinic keeps its own hours.
Price: Free to enter.
Getting there: Next to Tengah Bus Interchange, 42A Tengah Boulevard. 2.8km from Choa Chu Kang MRT (NS4/BP1).
Ages: All ages.

10. Plantation Farmway

Plantation Farmway in 2025. Photo: Sgwikicontributor, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

The farmways are Tengah's answer to the park connector, and Plantation Farmway is the first of them: 1.3 kilometres of green running between the housing blocks and linking them to the town centre, with playgrounds, fitness corners and community gardens strung along it. The name is not decorative. This land was farmland and then forest before the town was drawn on it.

It is flat, it is continuous, and because the blocks it serves are new, it is mostly empty on a weekday.

Why kids will love it: 1.3 kilometres of uninterrupted path with playgrounds spaced along it is a scooter route, not a walk. Start at Plantation Plaza, ride to the far end, stop at whichever playground looks best, ride back. Shade is patchy because the planting is young, so this is a before-10am or after-5pm outing.

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Website: HDB, Tengah town
Address: Runs through Plantation District between Tengah Drive and Plantation Crescent, Singapore. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours.
Price: Free.
Getting there: Bus to Plantation Plaza. 3km from Choa Chu Kang MRT (NS4/BP1).
Ages: 2 and up.

11. Garden Farmway and the insect playgrounds

Garden Farmway is the longer of Tengah's two finished green connectors at 1.5 kilometres, and it runs through the Garden District, which will hold about 7,000 homes. It threads past fitness corners, community gardens and the piece parents come for: a set of thematic playgrounds built around treehouses and common garden insects, which HDB uses to give the district its visual identity.

One end of Garden Farmway points at the future Central Park, a planned 20-hectare green lung. The other points at Tengah Pond. Neither is finished, so do not drive out here expecting a 20-hectare park. What is here is the path and the playgrounds.

Why kids will love it: Playgrounds shaped like beetles, ants and treehouses, which is a more specific proposition than the standard HDB climbing frame, and a child will pick a favourite within ten minutes. Because the district is half built, you will often have a whole playground to yourselves, which is its own kind of luxury on a Singapore Saturday.

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Website: HDB, Tengah town
Address: Runs through Garden District along Tengah Garden Avenue, Singapore. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours.
Price: Free.
Getting there: Bus from Tengah Bus Interchange. 3km from Choa Chu Kang MRT (NS4/BP1).
Ages: 2 to 12.

12. Tengah Community Club

Tengah Community Club stands at 119 Plantation Crescent, at the southern edge of the Plantation District. It is the town's first community club, and in a town with no library and no sports centre it is carrying a lot: this is where the holiday programmes, the interest groups and the bookable halls live.

Because the club is new, the People's Association listing for it is thin. Rather than print a course price that may be a year old, check the current term on onePA or at the counter.

Why kids will love it: A community club is where a new town's children actually meet each other, and Tengah's is small enough that they will. For a family that has just moved in, the term's course list is the fastest route into the estate. Go and read the noticeboard.

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Website: onePA, People's Association
Address: 119 Plantation Crescent, Singapore 690119. Google Maps
Opening hours: Check onePA for the current term. Community clubs normally open daily from mid-morning to late evening.
Price: Contact provider for pricing. Course fees vary by term and are lower for PAssion Card holders.
Getting there: Bus from Tengah Bus Interchange. 3.2km from Choa Chu Kang MRT (NS4/BP1).
Ages: All ages.

One bigger trip, just outside the boundary

13. Thow Kwang Pottery Jungle and the dragon kiln

Thow Kwang, at 85 Lorong Tawas off Jalan Bahar, has the oldest surviving dragon kiln in Singapore. The Tan family has run it since 1965. A dragon kiln is a long brick tunnel built up a slope and fired with wood, and this one is still fired three or four times a year, with the public firings announced on the pottery's own page.

It is 3.5km from Tengah and technically a postcode outside this guide, but it is the nearest thing to a workshop day out that this corner of Singapore has, and no other guide to the area includes it.

The pottery is blunt about one thing on its own site: it has no branches and no affiliates running workshops on its behalf. Book with them directly.

Why kids will love it: Walking the length of a kiln that looks like a brick dragon lying on a hillside, then sitting down and making something that might be fired in it. Weekend hand-building and wheel workshops start at $65. Children are welcome on the potter's wheel with an instructor, and firmly discouraged from using it unsupervised, which is the correct answer.

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Website: Thow Kwang Pottery Jungle
Address: 85 Lorong Tawas, via Clean Tech View, Singapore 639823. Google Maps
Opening hours: 9am to 5pm daily, including all public holidays except Chinese New Year.
Price: Free to walk in and look. Workshops from $65 for hand building and the wheel, $88 for a potter's wheel trial. Groups over 15 by enquiry.
Getting there: Bus 199 from Boon Lay Interchange, alight at the sixth stop before Lorong Danau on Nanyang Avenue, then a 7-minute walk. By car, PIE exit 36 at Jalan Bahar.
Ages: 5 and up for workshops.

The lunch stop

14. Poison Ivy Bistro at Bollywood Farms

There is no hawker centre in Kranji or Lim Chu Kang. That is not an oversight in this guide, it is the truth about the area: the postal sectors here hold farms, a reservoir, a military training area and a cemetery, and the nearest hawker centres are in Choa Chu Kang and Woodlands. So the lunch stop out here is a farm bistro.

Poison Ivy sits inside Bollywood Farms and cooks with what the farm grows. The kitchen is known for banana cake, tapioca and sweet potato chips, sambals and kaya, and the menu changes with what is ready. It takes reservations by telephone, and groups of 20 or more are handled separately.

In Tengah the answer is different and simpler: the food courts at Plantation Plaza and Parc Point.

Why kids will love it: Eating twenty metres from the plants the food came off is the sort of thing a seven-year-old remembers, and the banana cake settles any argument. Come at 7am on a Saturday with the farm, walk the plots first while it is cool, then eat. Book by telephone, because the bistro is small and the car park fills.

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Website: Poison Ivy Bistro, Bollywood Farms
Address: 100 Neo Tiew Road, Singapore 719026. Google Maps
Opening hours: Follows the farm. Wednesday to Friday 10am to 3pm, Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 7am to 6pm. Reservations on 6898 5001.
Price: Contact provider for pricing. Free car park.
Getting there: 5.1km from Kranji MRT (NS7) and no bus. Drive or taxi.
Ages: All ages.

Kids' classes in Kranji, Lim Chu Kang and Tengah you can book on Jungle

This is the shortest classes section in the series, and it is worth saying why. Across all three towns Jungle lists one bookable children's provider, and Tengah, a town planned for around 42,000 homes, currently has none at all on the directory.

• Nature Kindred, 65 Sungei Tengah Road, Singapore 699000. Booked sessions in kid fishing, terrarium building, planting, fossil digging and art and craft, indoors and air-conditioned. Ages 1 to 17.

For a real choice of weekly classes, the nearest cluster is one town south. The Bukit Panjang and Choa Chu Kang guide covers what is within two or three stops of Choa Chu Kang MRT, which is also the station Tengah families use.

At a glance

Before you drive out

Three closures worth knowing, because they are all still listed as open somewhere. Jurong Frog Farm has shut to the public permanently while the land goes back to the Singapore Land Authority, and its own website still advertises tours further down the same page. KF1 Karting's Kranji circuit closed when its lease ran out. The Singapore Turf Club Riding Centre has closed permanently, though Bukit Timah Saddle Club next door has not.

Eight of these 14 places need a car or a taxi for at least part of the journey, so plan the driving first and the day second. Browse activities and classes across Singapore on Jungle.