Free and nice for a walk and/or picnic. Also check out the tortoise and turtle sanctuary in the Chinese Garden. $5 adult admission and $2 for leafy vegetables and food pellets let you get up close and personal with these wonderful creatures. Worth a visit during the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival (Sep-Oct, exact date varies), when the garden is lit up with tens of thousands of lanterns, including complex installations with moving figures based on themes ranging from Hello Kitty to Chinese folk tales. As of February 2024 the gardens are closed for renovation/upgrade works.

Jurong Lake Gardens is the name used to refer to the three interconnected gardens located in and around Jurong Lake in western Singapore, these being the Chinese, Japanese, and Lakeside gardens. In 2014, then-Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong floated the idea of integrating the Chinese Garden, the Japanese Garden, and Jurong Lake Park , into a single park, referring to the unified park as Jurong Lake Gardens. Phase 1 of the Jurong Lake Gardens, consisting of the Lakeside Garden, opened on 27 April 2019. In 2024, the Chinese and Japanese gardens were reopened to the public after renovations.