Walk Singaporedifferently
An interactive trail guide for Singapore — revealing the stories written into the city itself.
The first three stops of every trail are free.
Seven stories that thread through the heart of Singapore
Walk the same streets. See a different city. Skip the generic summaries and discover the overlooked details most people simply pass by.
Into the Heartlands of Tiong Bahru
The story of how Singaporeans came to live the way they do, told through a single neighbourhood. Walk from the country's earliest idea of home to the high-rise life that now shapes almost everyone.
The Nanyang Passage Through Chinatown
Follow the long crossing from southern China into the streets where it first settled. A story of arriving with almost nothing and building a community, and of what it came to mean to be Chinese and Singaporean.
The Malay Footprints from Kampong Glam to Geylang Serai
Two ends of Singapore's Malay-Muslim world, a short ride apart. Begin where the community's royal history was written, and end where its everyday life is still lived, cooked and celebrated today.
The Enclave that Became Little India
The quarter that a community from across India slowly made its own. Many came meaning to earn and sail home; walk the story of the ones who stayed, and wove many roots and faiths into a single home.
One City, Many Cultures
Singapore is the most religiously diverse nation in the world, and nowhere shows it more plainly than here. A few streets in the civic district where many faiths and peoples worked out how to share a single island.
City in Nature
How a dense city decided to grow itself green. Walk the length of that ambition through the heart of Singapore, following the country's journey from Garden City to City in a Garden to City in Nature.
A Little Red Dot
Singapore began with almost nothing in its favour: little land, no resources, and few who expected it to last. Walk how a small and doubted country turned each of those limits into strength, and came to wear the little red dot as a badge of pride.
Walk Singapore Differently
Revealing the stories written into the city itself
Follow the Golden Thread
A living 3D world where every gem reveals a story
Read Between the Streets
Reach a point and never see the place the same way again
A Passport of Your Experiences
Collect the city, one card at a time
Your Field Guide to Flavour
Browse every dish's story and keep your own tasting notes
Straight from the Source
Deeply researched, properly cited, brought to life with photos and film
Seven Trails, All of Singapore
Pull a thread and let the city unfold
Meet Tanken
Meet your guide. Tanken is curious about everything and well-read on the places he takes you. He'll bring you to stops you'd walk straight past, tell you the story that runs through them, and ask a question or two that stays with you after the walk. He's enthusiastic, and easy to follow.
Tanken is for everyone
Different people, different reasons to walk. Hover a face to see.
Tanken is for everyone
Different people, different reasons to walk.
You already live here.
Tanken draws out the history and stories built into the places you pass every day, the kind even locals rarely hear. Rediscover your own city on foot, with stories worth passing on. You'll never see Singapore the same again.
More than the usual itinerary.
Singapore has a surface and it has a depth. The trails take you past the landmarks and into the parts most visitors never find, so you go home understanding the city, not just having seen it.
Let's build one together.
A Tanken trail is slow craft: deep research folded into one continuous story, walked and rewritten until every stop earns its place. If you're a heritage board, a neighbourhood association, or a brand with a place worth that kind of telling, write to us.
Bring a trail to your class.
Tanken trails are grounded in real research and built around places with genuine historical and cultural weight. Use them on a class outing or back in the classroom, and write to us to tell us what you have in mind.
The People Behind Tanken
Kelvin and Frank are Singaporeans who travel for depth. The places that stay with them are the ones that give up their story, the history and the people behind them, not the ones built for a photo. They built Tanken to do that for Singapore, an app for anyone who wants the city to open up the same way.
Frank
Engineer
A computer scientist and engineer with years of building things people use. He turns each trail's research and prompts into something that works in your hand. The experience carries his hand.
Kelvin
Educator
A passionate educator who taught at NUS, with a background in organisational management and negotiation. He shapes each trail so the city's quieter stories find their hold. The stories carry his eye.
Singapore is waiting
Pick a trail, step outside, and let the city tell you something you didn't know.
The first three stops are free.
Enough to know if it's for you.
Singapore is waiting
Pick a trail, step outside, and let the city tell you something you didn't know.
The first three stops are free.
Enough to know if it's for you.