The Spring Kuching is open 10am to 10pm every day at Persiaran Spring, off Jalan Simpang Tiga, about 8 minutes by car from Kuching International Airport. The Ta Kiong supermarket and most of the fashion are on the ground floor, MUJI and the FoodBazaar food court are on the first, the GSC cinema is on the second, and the car park is in the basement.
The floor plan is the awkward part. The mall has three floors above ground and a basement, stitched together from wings, and the 2024 renovation of the second floor moved enough tenants that older lists online are wrong. The mall’s own website has no directory page either: its “Directory” link loops back to the homepage and the only floor and lot numbers sit on one page per shop. This list is built from those shop pages and from 2025 and 2026 sources, so read it as a snapshot checked in October 2026.
Which Shops Are on Each Floor of The Spring? (Checked October 2026)
The Spring has four levels, and the retail weight sits on the ground and first floors, with the basement holding the car park and the second floor holding the cinema. The table lists what the mall’s own shop pages place on each level, with lot numbers in brackets.
| Level | Anchor tenants | Food | Services |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basement | Car park, including the Green Zone with EV charging pods | Tealive (B11A) | Autopay stations by the car park lobby |
| Ground Floor | Ta Kiong supermarket (G60), Uniqlo (G46), H&M (G27), Sephora (G41), Watsons (G54C), Guardian (G54B), Switch tech store (G19), Lego (G24), New Balance (G22B), Wilson (G26), Salomon (G58A) | Tables & Tales food hall, Starbucks (G9A), KFC (G6), Nando’s (G11), Sushi King (G40A), Gigi Coffee (G47A), Boost Juice (G54F), Signature Market (G9), Godiva (G54D) | Concierge at Centre Court, surau beside Lego and New Balance, premium washroom at North Court |
| First Floor | MUJI (132E), Toys’R’Us (130), Padini Concept Store (141), Daiso (157B), MPH Bookstores | FoodBazaar (113), Secret Recipe (119) | Nursing room, OKU toilet |
| Second Floor | GSC cinema (214) | Potato Story kiosk (211) | Nursing room, OKU toilet |
Lot numbers follow the floor, which helps when you are matching the mall’s signage. G marks the ground floor and B the basement, three-digit numbers starting with 1 are on the first floor (MUJI is 132E, FoodBazaar is 113), those starting with 2 are on the second (GSC is 214), and a KG prefix marks a ground-floor kiosk.
Which Supermarket Is in The Spring?
Ta Kiong is the supermarket in The Spring, on the ground floor at Lot G60, and the mall describes it as selling local and premium products, with fresh produce and imported specialty foods. Shoppers who review it most often mention the imported sauces and snacks and a large wine and spirits section, and several note that shelf prices follow ordinary market rates despite the smarter fit-out. It trades the same 10am to 10pm as the mall. I do the weekly shop here when I can’t be bothered driving further out. The Spring has no second supermarket, so the way to weigh Ta Kiong is to set it against Kuching’s other supermarkets on price and range.
Where Can You Eat in The Spring?
Food in The Spring comes in three layers: the FoodBazaar food court on the first floor, the Tables & Tales food hall on the ground floor, and the chains spread across the other levels.
FoodBazaar is the cheap lunch, at Lot 113, with a basic meal running RM8 to RM15. Its hours on Google are 10am to 9pm, an hour before the mall shuts, so a late dinner needs another plan. Regulars rate its beef noodles and chicken rice, while the recent complaints are about quality slipping from earlier years and thin chicken rice portions. Its stall count ranges from a little over 15 to about 40 depending on the year you ask about, so treat any number you read as approximate.
Tables & Tales is the dearer option, a food hall in the ground-floor corner opposite Ta Kiong that opened on 7 August 2025. It has eight stalls (handmade pasta, Neapolitan pizza, grill, Thai, waffles, Japanese and a cocktail bar), seats up to 286 people, takes no reservations and has live bands from Friday to Sunday. Its operators call it a food hall rather than a food court, and visitors agree on the price gap: dishes cost a little more than at a food court, which they put down to the setting and the bar. Its quality varies by stall, with the scratch-made pasta and the beef kueh tiaw drawing the most praise. It opens at 11am, an hour after the mall.
The chains are in the table by floor, with one thing worth knowing: Sushi King’s Google address reads “Food Bazaar”, but the mall lists it on the ground floor at Lot G40A, so follow the lot number rather than the address. Secret Recipe is on the first floor, Potato Story’s kiosk is on the second, and the only basement outlet in the table is Tealive.
Is There a Cinema in The Spring?
GSC The Spring is on the second floor at Lot 214, with 8 halls and 1,508 seats. The cinema opened as MBO Cinemas in June 2009 and is now GSC. GSC lists no IMAX or other premium format there, and the IMAX screen is across town at TGV in Vivacity Megamall. A standard seat runs roughly RM14 to RM18, and GSC advertises a cheaper Wednesday rate for standard halls. Drivers should use the basement lift at G14, which goes straight up to the second floor and suits prams and wheelchairs.
Reviewers keep raising two queue problems. Pre-ordered snacks are collected in the same line as walk-up orders, and the ticket kiosks sit apart from the concession counter, so check the collection queue before you buy tickets. The self-service ticket machines have also broken down at busy moments, so arrive early.
Are Kaison, Popular or Parkson in The Spring?
Kaison is not in The Spring: the Kuching branch is on level 2 of Vivacity Megamall, which is why searches for a Kaison at The Spring come up empty. Popular Bookstore and MR DIY did not turn up on the mall’s shop pages in the October 2026 check, and the bookshop here is MPH Bookstores on the first floor. Parkson, the old department-store anchor, closed in April 2023, so any list that still shows it is out of date. Errands this list cannot cover, from budget fashion to hardware, usually land at another mall, and which mall handles which errand is mapped out for the whole city.
What Are The Spring’s Opening Hours?
The Spring is open 10am to 10pm daily, and the ground-floor concierge keeps the same hours with a hotline on +6082 238 222. Most shops match the mall, with two food outlets to plan around: FoodBazaar is listed as closing at 9pm and Tables & Tales as opening at 11am. The cinema’s last screening depends on the film, so check the GSC app. Public-holiday and festive hours can differ, and the mall’s Facebook page is where they are posted.
Parking at The Spring: What It Costs and Where to Go In
The Spring has three car parks: the covered basement, an outdoor lot across Persiaran Spring, and the Premier bays at ground level beside Tables & Tales. Together they hold about 1,500 bays, and the basement Green Zone and the Premier lot both have EV charging pods. Entry has used plate recognition since April 2021, so there is no ticket to lose: you pay in the Pay&Go app, or at an autopay station near the car park lobby, and then leave within the grace period shown on the machine.
Rates are the part with no official tariff page. Weekdays run roughly RM2 to RM5 per entry, with outdoor and basement at the cheap end and Premier at the top. At weekends and on public holidays, the first two hours cost roughly RM2 to RM5 and each hour after that RM1 to RM2. Read the board at the entrance before you commit, because the tariff has changed before.
Phone signal is the practical catch. Drivers say reception in the basement can be patchy, so app payment fails there, and the autopay station near the lobby is the safer bet. On weekend afternoons the outdoor lot is where most drivers end up, a downside the opinion piece on the weekend car park rush covers in full.
How Do You Get to The Spring Without a Car?
Grab is the simplest route, and the drop-off zone is at the main Persiaran Spring entrance, shared with taxis. Visitors staying near the Waterfront describe the mall as a fair way out, and some of them take Grab for that reason. Before you book, what Grab and taxis cost across the city is worth a look.
Buses are the cheaper option. BAS.MY Kuching stage buses launched in March 2025 on a route that passes Sarawak General Hospital, The Spring and Vivacity, so check BAS.MY for current fares. The free Kuching Metro e-bus has listed The Spring on older stop lists, but the route was realigned in 2025, so check the app before relying on it. How Kuching’s buses work in practice covers both. A pedestrian bridge crosses Jalan Simpang Tiga to ST3 Mall, the stop where reviewers describe waiting for a bus.
The planned Sarawak Metro Blue Line lists a station at The Spring, but it sits in a later phase with no confirmed opening date, so nothing about the trip changes yet.
What Services Does The Spring Have?
The concierge on the ground floor at Centre Court is the service desk: it lends wheelchairs and strollers, hands out umbrellas, keeps first-aid kits and lost property, and takes car park fee payments. Security is on +6016 879 9035 and the office on +6082 238 111. The surau is on the ground floor beside Lego and New Balance. Nursing rooms are on every level, each with a hot water dispenser and an air purifier, and OKU toilets are on every floor. The premium washroom is in the corridor between Adidas and Uniqlo at North Court.
Before You Go
Tenants change, so this was checked in October 2026 against the mall’s own shop pages, the GSC cinema page and dated 2025 and 2026 sources. The mall’s Facebook page, tHe Spring Kuching, is where new openings are posted. Wilson (G26) and Salomon (G58A) were the newest ground-floor names this autumn. Whether the trip is worth making at all is a separate question, which the case for and against The Spring takes up.