Punggol Point Park and Punggol Beach

Closed for upgrading until the end of 2027. When it reopens, read the heritage plaque before you start the walk.

Punggol Point Park is closed. NParks has shut it for upgrading from 11 August 2026 to 31 December 2027, with only the toilets staying open, so this is not a place to plan a visit to for now. What follows is for when it reopens, and for anyone who wants to know what happened on this shore before they go.

At the very end of Punggol Road, the new town runs out and the Straits of Johor take over. The park looks across to Coney Island and Pulau Ubin, with a rocky shoreline and wide skies, and its centrepiece is a 2.4km boardwalk along the coast with fishing platforms and small shelters for watching sunrise and sunset.

The shore carries a weight that the views don't show. On 28 February 1942, during the Japanese Occupation's Sook Ching purge, around 300 to 400 Chinese civilians were shot along the Punggol foreshore by a Japanese auxiliary military police firing squad. They had been among about 1,000 men rounded up in a search on Upper Serangoon Road. The bodies were left on the shore or thrown into the sea, and remains were still being found decades later, including a skull in 1977 and a gold tooth in 1997. Punggol Point is a national heritage site, with a plaque that commemorates the victims. Read it before you walk on.

The headland is old. It appears as Tanjong Rangon on an 1828 map, and fishermen once auctioned their catch at a market at the end of nearby Punggol Port Road. The stretch was later known for its seafood restaurants, which operated here until the mid-1990s, when they were moved out for land reclamation, and the park opened in its current form as Punggol Point Park in 2011.

When it reopens, the best way to do it is early. Come for sunrise, when the light is soft and the heat hasn't arrived, walk the boardwalk to the fishing platforms and stop at the plaque. Take care on the rocks. Punggol Point LRT is within walking distance, and the Punggol Settlement beside the jetty has had restaurants and a bicycle rental shop for anyone heading on along the Coney Island Park Connector; check what is open there before you rely on it. Let the place be both things at once: a beautiful stretch of coast, and a reminder of what happened on it.

Good to know Closed for upgrading until 31 December 2027 (toilets open). When it reopens, Punggol Point LRT station is within walking distance and there is a public car park off Punggol Point Road. Take care on the rocks, and treat the heritage site with respect.

Punggol Point Park and Punggol Beach | End of Punggol Road, Singapore