View of the Toa Payoh Town Park in Toa Payoh, Singapore (11 July 2011)
Toa Payoh (GPS: 1.3343, 103.85632) is a planning area in the Central Region of
Singapore. The Toa Payoh area is bounded by Braddell Road and Bartley Road to the north, Upper Paya Lebar Road to the east,
MacPherson Road and Jalan Toa Payoh to the south and
Thomson Road to the west.
Toa Payoh is located in Singapore Postal
District 12.
The planning area of Toa Payoh comprises 12 neighbourhoods, known as subzones. They are
Bidadari, Boon Teck, Braddell, Joo Seng, Kim Keat, Lorong 8 Toa Payoh, Pei Chun, Potong Pasir, Sennett, Toa Payoh Central, Toa Payoh West and Woodleigh.
The name "Toa Payoh" means "big swamp". It is derived from the Hokkien word
toa meaning big and
payoh, a corruption of "paya", the Malay word for swamp, as in Paya Lebar.
Toa Payoh is bordered by
Bishan and
Serangoon to the north,
Hougang in the east,
Geylang in the southeast,
Kallang in the south, Novena in the southwest and the Central Water Catchment in the northwest.
MRT Stations in Toa Payoh, Singapore
Getting there
You can reach Toa Payoh by taking the Singapore MRT
North-South Line to the
Toa Payoh MRT Station (NS19).
Lorong 2 Toa Payoh looking towards the intersection with Lorong 6 and Lorong 1. (11 July 2011)
Lorong 2 Toa Payoh. (11 July 2011)