TWG Tea opened its largest store in the world at Changi Airport Terminal 3 on 2 October 2026. The 2,700 sq ft TWG Tea Gallery sits in Departure/Transit Lounge North at unit #02-58B, and it is open 24 hours. You need to be airside to walk in. If you are landside at Jewel, this is not the TWG you can wander into after dinner.
The brand already had five other transit boutiques at Changi. This one is different because it is also a museum. Taha Bouqdib, president of V3 Gourmet and co-founder of TWG Tea, spent 15 years buying antique teaware around the world. The gallery is where that collection finally sits on public view, with short guided tours led by TWG tea trainers.
What the museum actually holds
The official count is more than 170 antique tea wares and decorative objects, plus more than 50 Russian samovars dated from the 17th to 20th centuries. Time Out notes Tula workshop pieces from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including work by the Batashev and Shemarin brothers with hallmarks collectors can date.
CNA Lifestyle's walkthrough is the most useful on-the-ground account. Yixing clay teapots sit unglazed so they absorb flavour over years of brewing. Blue-and-white ceramics in the cases come from the long exchange between Chinese and Islamic potters. By the 17th century, Chinese porcelain was expensive enough in Europe to be nicknamed white gold. Smaller sterling silver bachelor teapots from the 1800s were made for one person, before tea bags existed. Larger Chinese porcelain pots arrived later, when tea became a family pour rather than a private cup.
One German teapot from the 1930s is the origin story of TWG's own Design Teapot. The ceramic body sits inside a fitted, felt-lined silver cover that keeps the brew warm, with Bakelite feet and finial. TWG's current version copies the idea in stainless steel or gold with ceramic or glass pots. Tea caddies in the same room are the locked boxes 18th-century British households used to keep expensive leaves in the parlour. The word caddy comes from kati, the Malay unit of weight tea was sold by. A trainer on CNA's tour said the lady of the house also used the caddy to blend two teas.
The samovars were both kettles and furniture. Some Tula pieces still carry factory stamps for awards, and stamps from countries they travelled through, like a passport on metal.
Look up before you leave. The ceiling is 23 feet high and painted as a world tea map. One wall holds more than 1,200 tea tins. The room smells of open leaf before you reach the counter, which is the point of putting a museum next to a takeaway bar.
What you can buy on a layover
This is not a sit-down tea salon. It is a boutique plus a takeaway counter. The retail wall lists more than 1,000 single-estate harvests and exclusive blends. The Gallery-only tea is Grand Voyage Tea, a whole-leaf green blend with orchard fruit, pink rose, mallow blossom and spice. Time Out has it at S$45.87 packaged, or S$8.50 for a 450ml cup, hot or iced.
The Singapore Surprise Gift Set is S$89.91 and packs three house blends: Singapore Breakfast Tea, Silver Moon Tea and 1837 Black Tea. The Changi Tote Bag Bundle is S$98 and includes a tote, a mug and two cotton teabag gift boxes. MyTWG members who spend at least S$100 at the Gallery get a complimentary takeaway tea during the opening period.
Singapore's first TWG tea-infused ice cream and sorbet counter is exclusive to this store. Time Out prices a scoop at S$6.50 and two scoops at S$10. The flavours that keep coming up in coverage are pandan gula melaka and coconut tea ice cream, and soursop with Temi FTGFOP1 sorbet. BERITA Mediacorp also names a coconut tea flavour and durian belanda in the Malay-language report. Macarons and chocolate bonbons sit beside the freezer. The two named macarons are mango with Alfonso tea ganache, and pistachio praline with crème brûlée tea feuilletine.
If you are not flying from T3 North
The Gallery is airside in Terminal 3's north departure lounge. Arriving passengers who have cleared immigration cannot go back in. Landside visitors at Jewel cannot reach it without a boarding pass and immigration. Phone the store on +65 6904 1837 if you need to check a pickup.
TWG still has other Changi transit shops if your gate is elsewhere. Terminal 1 Departure/Transit Lounge West #02-14 is 24 hours. Terminal 3 south #02-26 is also 24 hours. Terminal 2 #02-216, the T3 kiosk at #02-K12, and Terminal 4 #02-29 run 6am to 1am. Those shops do not have the museum.
If you have 20 minutes, skip the gift wall, take the trainer tour, then grab a scoop and a 450ml Grand Voyage for the gate. If you have an hour, the samovars and the caddy story are the part you will not get in any other TWG in Singapore.
Practical Details
- Opened: 2 October 2026
- Hours: 24 hours daily
- Venue: TWG Tea Gallery, #02-58B, Terminal 3 Departure/Transit Lounge North, Singapore Changi Airport, 819663
- Access: Airside only. Departing and transit passengers.
- Nearest MRT: Changi Airport, then Terminal 3 departure immigration
- Phone: +65 6904 1837
- Prices: Grand Voyage Tea S$45.87 tin or S$8.50 for 450ml takeaway. Ice cream S$6.50 a scoop, S$10 for two. Singapore Surprise Gift Set S$89.91. Changi Tote Bag Bundle S$98.
- Website: TWG Tea Gallery at Changi T3
