19 Apr 2019 - A Visit to Jewel Changi Airport

It's public holiday today and we decided to get out of the comfort of our house.  One of the recent major events in Singapore has to be the opening of Jewel Changi Airport.  After years of anticipation, the majestic Jewel Changi Airport opens its doors to the first visitors this week.  As the place is expected to be very crowded, we drove there early in the morning.  By the time we drove into its car park, there were still available parking lots.

The main attraction is the Rain Vortex, the largest indoor waterfall in the world – and the crown jewel of Jewel Changi Airport.  It's really spectacular and we took photos of it from all angles around it.

As expected, queues for the eateries and shops were a little bit out of control.  One of the most popular shops in the Pokemon Center, the first centre to open outside Japan.  Seeing the super long queue, we decided to just take a look from outside of the shop.

The centre is a specialist store for all things Pokémon and where to collect 'em plush toys, video games, trading cards, Pokémon apparel and other official merchandise. This store in Jewel Changi Airport also stocks Singapore-exclusive official merchandise which you can't get in the Japan store.

There are other attractions in Jewel Changi Airport but most of them, such as Canopy Park, Hedge Maze, Topiary Walk and Changi Experience Studio, have yet to be opened.

We decided to have an early lunch before the lunch crowd started streaming in.  We had our lunch at Hot Tomato, a contemporary casual steakhouse offering grilled steaks and seafood, pasta, salads and sides.

Jewel Changi Airport is situated in the middle of Terminal 1, 2 and 3.  It connects to Terminal 2 and 3 via a glass walkway.

We took the walkway to Terminal 2 looking for Starbucks as the one in Jewel was full house.

It has been a while since we last visited Terminal 2.  Frankly speaking, it's still one of the better terminal that we had visited so far.  We were especially attracted to an incredible clocks artwork, which is both a kinetic sculpture and a functioning clock.  Hats off to the designer of this amazing piece of artwork.
By the time we returned to Jewel from Terminal 2, it was so crowded that the airport staff had started performing crowd control to the Rain Vortex.  This place is more than just an airport and I am sure Changi Airport will continue to be voted as the Best Airport in the World in the years to come.