Causeway Link bus guide

When it comes to planning short weekend trips in JB, flashes of never-ending throngs of stationary cars honking away at one another at the checkpoints often float to mind. However, not all cross-border trips entail wasting hours stuck in a jam.

Other than driving into JB yourself, there are other convenient modes of transport that bring you across the border. Case in point, the swift KTM train. Today, we’re talking about one of the many Singapore to JB bus services, the Causeway Link bus.

Taking the Causeway Link bus is not as complicated as it might seem, even for someone who’s not been to JB in a hot minute like myself. Here’s all you need to know about taking the Causeway Link bus, from boarding locations and fares, to getting back to Singapore after your short respite over at our neighbours.

What is the Causeway Link bus?

The Causeway Link bus, also commonly referred to as CW bus, is a bus service which ferries passengers from Singapore to Johor Bahru, and vice versa. Other than cross-border trips, their trademark yellow buses also operate around a sizable portion of Malaysia, with routes stretching as far as Mersing and Pontian.

For the sake of this article, we’ll only be covering their Singapore to JB routes, but if you’d like to have a peek at their extensive list of routes, head over to the