Beauty World MRT Station

DT5 Beauty World 美世界 | பியூட்டி வேர்ல்ட்
Address	101 Upper Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 588216
Line Served	Downtown Line
Operator	SBS Transit
Structure	Underground
Platform	Island
Opened	27 Dec 2015

Beauty World MRT Station (DT5) is an underground station along the Downtown Line (DTL). It is built underneath Upper Bukit Timah Road, near the junction of Jalan Jurong Kechil, and serves part of the Upper Bukit Timah corridor, including the Toh Yi Estate. It bears the name Beauty World after a former amusement park in the area.

The station is located in the vicinity of low-rise private homes, condominiums, HDB flats, shophouses, commercial buildings, shopping centres and places of worship. Prominent landmarks include Bukit Timah Shopping Centre, Beauty World Centre, Beauty World Plaza and Bukit Timah Market & Food Centre. Beauty World Integrated Transport Hub, will also be built in the near future.

First / Last Train Timings

Station Layout

Downtown Line (B2):

Platform A: Downtown Line towards DT1–BP6 Bukit Panjang via DT3 Hillview (→) Platform B: Downtown Line towards DT35CG1 Expo via DT6 King Albert Park (←)

Beauty World station has two platforms in an island platform arrangement, with both platforms utilized for trains travelling in either direction.

Heading north from Hillview station towards Bukit Panjang, trains pass through DT4 Hume station, which is currently under construction and scheduled to open in 2025.

Concourse

The station concourse is located at Basement 1.

Art in Transit: “Asemic Lines” by Boedi Widjaja

The artwork presents the multi-cultural mix of language as the result of multi-culturalism, and invites the viewers’ aesthetic intuition to ‘hover’ between reading and looking. It comprises Chinese, Jawi, Tamil and Latin words and letterforms that were layered upon each other in rhythm patterns then sandblasted into the wall. Spanning 91.2 metres, it was created by Boedi Widjaja, 40, an Indonesia-born artist who has been living in Singapore for the past 31 years.

Civil Defence shelter

Beauty World station is one of six stations along the Downtown Line 2 designated as Civil Defence (CD) shelters, which will be activated in times of national emergency. Apart from reinforced construction, the stations are designed and equipped with facilities to ensure the shelter environment is tolerable for all shelterees during shelter occupation. These facilities include protective blast doors, decontamination facilities, ventilation systems, power and water supply systems and a dry toilet system.

Station Amenities

• Public Toilets at concourse level
• Retail Shops at concourse level
• ATM at concourse level
• Bicycle racks at station exits

Exits

Beauty World MRT station has a three exits at ground level (A, B and C), all of which provide barrier-free accessibility.

Exit	Location	Nearby
A	Upper Bukit Timah Rd (Northbound)	Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Bukit Timah Shopping Centre, Beauty World Plaza, Beauty World Centre, Church of Singapore (Bukit Timah), Goh & Goh Building, UOB Centre
B	Upper Bukit Timah Rd (Southbound)	Bukit Timah Tua Pek Kong Temple, Dimensions Int’l College (Bukit Timah Campus), JK Building, Kilat Centre, Mahabodhi Monastry, Sweebi House
C	Jalan Jurong Kechil	Bee Low See Temple, Bukit Timah Market & Food Centre, Bukit Timah Plaza, Bukit Timah Community Centre, Glory Presbyterian Church, Ngee Ann Polytechnic (Staff Apartments), Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School, Toh Yi Estate

Transport Connections

Beauty World station connects to four bus stops in the vicinity, as well as taxi stands and passenger pick-up points.

Bus

There are four official bus stops linked to Beauty World station. Additional bus stops are included for a better representation of the area.

Bus Stop 4, 42109 – Jln Anak Bt (Opp Beauty World Ctr), is not connected directly to Beauty World station. Commuters must use Exit A, enter Beauty World Centre and take the building escalator/lifts to the 4th floor. Next to the food court is an overhead bridge spanning across Jalan Anak Bukit; cross it to get to Bus Stop 4.

Road

Taxi stands and pick-up/drop-off points are located next to the following station exits:

MRT Bus Bridging Service

In the event of a MRT service disruption affecting Beauty World station, MRT Bridging Buses may be activated to ply affected stretches of the Downtown Line. In which case, the buses can be boarded from the following bus stops:

In addition, passengers can board free regular bus services at Bus Stops 1 & 2 when activated.

Passenger Usage Patterns

As a station along the Bukit Timah belt serving a mix of residential homes, commercial buildings and shopping centres, Beauty World station encounters moderate to high demand levels as a transport node serving the Beauty World area, connecting it to the rest of the rail network. Visitors to the area’s shopping centres and many food outlets operating from shophouses result in a decent flow of commuters in and out of the station throughout the day.

Construction Trivia

Downtown Line Stage 2 (DTL2) Contract 916 was awarded to McConnell Dowell S.E.A. Pte Ltd for the design and construction of Beauty World station and its associated tunnels for S$339.88 million in Mar 2009.

Gallery

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