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Singaporean here! (jon)Welcome '''Singapore''' is a city-state in South-Eastern Asia] It has a road border with [[Malaysia]] to the north and a sea border with Indonesia to the smallest country in Asia. Not even kiddingsouth and west. But also The currency is the richest countrySingapore Dollar.

From the Airport, take the "JB Shuttle Bus" which takes you to JB = [[, Johor Bahru]] in Malaysia, just over the border. Cost: $10 SGD (feb 2020)

From any point in the city, take the MRT (Mass Rapid Transport = Metro) '''''Option 1:Red Line to "Marsiling station" (Attention: if the border Woodlands checkpoint is called Woodlands, don)''''t get out at Woodlands station but at Marsiling which is closer). The cost : around $3 SGD, don't forget to take the $1 refund when exiting the station.

You Take the metro red line to Marsiling station and walk 15 minutes to Woodlands Immigration Checkpoint. After passport and customs control, you will come out at the bus station for buses to the Malaysian immigration checkpoint across the causeway separating Singapore from Malaysia. From here, you can either take the bus or try to hitch from walk there. Walking will take about 25 minutes: walk to the end of the bus platform and follow the "walking man" sign, down to the bottom of the spiral stairway, and through a small tunnel to the bridge across the station causeway. There is a narrow pavement where it is possible to walk safely on the bridge until the road climbs and splits into various lanes. At this point, carefully cross over to the north lane for cars and then later the one for buses (direction Johor / it can feel somewhat scary to walk this part without the pavement but usually the traffic is backed up from the checkpointand going slow)and you will arrive at the point where the buses off-load their passengers for Malaysian immigration and customs control. Just follow the people up the escalators to the immigration hall. Once past immigration, with you will arrive at the bus station. Just follow the road out a sign would helpshort while… this road eventually leads onto the highway to KL. You can start hitching here (1.46640°N 103.76821°E) although there isn’t much room for cars to pull over, or you can walk down the road 500m to where the trucks coming out from immigration and customs control and heading in the direction of KL join this main road to the highway (1°28'05.6"N 103°46'07.1"E).

Or you can walk It could be possible to customs, around 15 minutes, head towards hitch from the "checkpoint". Once past customs and you have your passport stamped, you come out in a bus station, you will need a ticket to board one, but you can also follow the "walking man" sign. It leads towards centre of the bridge that makes the border. You may be stopped where there is a small lay-by several police officers stating that you can't walk but often this is full of scooters and it’s not possible for cars to Malaysiapull over. Say that you know what you are doing Also, the fact that someone will pick you this is a border area makes drivers nervous about picking up there. Don't mention you are hitchhiking, they will just keep you longer telling you it's forbidden, hitchhikers and there's nowhere to pull over. Just stick to the pickis also a ‘no-up story. Walk along the narrow side of the road, one minute, to the center of pedestrian’ sign on the bridge where there will be a large enough space for cars . Better to stop. Hitch from there. There's a lot of traffic get past immigration and you won't wait longstart hitching on the Malaysian side.

Edit'''''Option 2: there was so much traffic that walking was literally faster, I got to car check point but had to get up to bus terminal to get stamped and then inside Malaysia I hitchhiked in. Not easy to get a ride from the mall area of JB sentral... More advice is appreciated.(Tuas Checkpoint)'''''

Once If you don't want to pass through Malaysian immigration you can just walk east out of the downstairs Bus Station Johon Bahru and find the road that leads want to the freeway towards KL. I have hitched here three times in recent years get easier and each time i got a lift quite fast. Check direct rides north, this is the map best place for exact locationhitching out. Edit 2: I had absolutely no success trying the bridge spot, Take bus CW3 from Jurong East station (there was a lot of scooters parked there and because of thatis one every 20-30 min, little place for cars to stop (November 20175$)and this will bring you past the border. IMO the best place would be the rightmost channel Just get off at the border checkpoint on the Malaysian side. You can either walk there all the way from the SG side of the border, or take walk 5 minutes and you have a bus and find the stairs good toll heading down to the checkpointnorth. There's plenty If this is not working too much, a couple of space km away there is a rest station. Waited 2 minutes for a direct ride to stop and cars are moving slow, eventually you will get someone to pick you upKL. (Mojo)

 If you arrive by flight to SIN, and plan to cross the border overland, make sure you made a fake return e-ticket from SIN (to anywhere). There is a high chance that they ask you for your return itinerary at the check-in counter of the departure airport. It's a new regulation in Singapore Customs. While in some cases if you explain you go overland they may let you in, they also can be annoying. While leaving CDG to SIN with Singapore Airlines they accepted my explanations, but when I left MEL to SIN with Jetstar they just didn't accept any explanation and I had to buy a ticket I would never use departing from SIN, at last minute leaving me no choice ([[User:toortoth|toortoth]]). So make a fake, with a frame from another airline (in case they want to check in their own system, but they never do, it would be too long to check itineraries of all passengers, especially calling other companies). Cheapest ticket out of the country is most likely the Singapore-Batam ferry, can be booked online on batamfast.com for SGD15. Officially suggested by Jetstar.