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Tuesday, June 07, 2016

How To Use The Singapore MRT

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Continuing my guides about using Singapore MRT, this time i would like to give an insight about How To Use The Singapore MRT and How To Buy The MRT Ticket. Well its simple because you can not ride the MRT without the ticket LOL :P   

Here are the things you should know on How To Buy The MRT Ticket :

  1. When you are entering the MRT Station, there are 2 options on how to buy the Ticket. They are The Manual and The Automatic. On the manual you simply talk to Ticket Counter Officer and buy the ticket there. And for the Automatic, you will need to use The Ticket Vending Machine yourself
  2. If you choose the Manual, go to the Ticket Counter and speak to the officer there in English example "Marina Bay Ticket please for 1 person". Than you need to pay for 1.30 SGD for the Trip Fare (Various depend on the Trip Route)
  3. If you choose to use The Ticket Vending Machine, you need to know that it is Touch Screen Device. In depth guide on how to use The Ticket Vending Machine below.

 

Here are the things you should know on How To Use The Ticket Vending Machine :

  1. Touch the LCD Screen, choose your language (Default English). Than there are MRT Map shown on the screen, touch the name indicated Marina Bay (Example), than pick how many person, than  the fare will be shown.
  2. If you pay with Paper type Money lets say 2 SGD or 2 x 1 SGD. Put the money here (see image). And the change will be drop below it  
  3. If you are using mix type of money (papers and coins), example 1 SGD paper money and 0.30 SGD coins. Put the coins here   
  4.  Than the Single Trip Ticket will be come out from this slot  
  5. Because the Single Trip Ticket can be recharged for 6 times, you can recharge (top up) it by putting the card here and repeat the steps   
 

Here are the things you should know on How To Use Singapore MRT :

  1. When you already has the Ticket, straight to the Ticket Gate and Tap (touch) to one of the slot  
  2. Than go to the MRT Ram, where you will ride on your MRT Train, but you need to specifically watch this. Usually there are Two Sides of the ram, on some Station there are more layered Ram (Dhoby Ghaut and City Hall). So you need to pay attention to the Sign Board.  
  3. On board the Train pay attention to this Sign Board and Announcement Sound that tells everytime the train stop at station. Because that's your cue to where you need to get off  

TIPS  :

  1. Always use your smartphone for Google Maps it really help
  2. Don't be shy to ask for help from others
So there it goes tips on How To Use The Singapore MRT. Its not that had once you get the hang of it. Well this guide also help on using MRT in other countries such as Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, Bangkok Thailand, or even Japan. Because the method is the same

Thank for reading and please do share it if you don't mind :) 
 

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