Shah Alam, Selangor
Taman Tasik Shah Alam (Shah Alam Lake Gardens) is Selangor's first public park, opened in 1985 on a 43-hectare site in Seksyen 14 designed by Japanese architect Fumiaki Takano. Its three interconnected man-made lakes, West, Central and East, are linked by canals and walkways and support around a hundred species of trees, birds and fish, including migratory visitors. The park later became host to two further landmarks built within its grounds: Wet World Shah Alam, a water park operating on the West Lake since 1996 and marketed as Malaysia's first Green Waterpark, and the Selangor-Japan Friendship Garden, opened on the East Lake in 2021. In October 2025, marking Shah Alam City Council's 25th Silver Jubilee, MBSA and the Malaysian Institute of Landscape Architects (ILAM) held the Playscape competition to design a new, universally accessible children's playground for the park.
Shah Alam Lake Gardens
English name used interchangeably with the Malay Taman Tasik Shah Alam
1985
Taman Tasik Shah Alam opens as Selangor's first public park, a 43-hectare site designed by Japanese architect Fumiaki Takano, with three man-made lakes linked by canals and walkways.
1996
Wet World Shah Alam opens on the park's West Lake, becoming one of Malaysia's first water theme parks and later marketed as the country's first Green Waterpark for its chemical-reducing water filtration system.
12 March 2021
The Selangor-Japan Friendship Garden opens on the park's East Lake, a 2.42-hectare Japanese-style garden built to mark Selangor's trade and investment ties with Japan.
30 October 2025
Shah Alam City Council (MBSA) and the Malaysian Institute of Landscape Architects (ILAM) hold the prize ceremony for the Playscape design competition at the park, part of MBSA's 25th Silver Jubilee celebrations, aimed at a new children's playground built on Universal Design and inclusive-access principles.
Today
The lake gardens remain the green heart of Shah Alam's civic core, combining recreational lakes and jogging paths with the Wet World water park, the Selangor-Japan Friendship Garden and Galeri Shah Alam, the state art gallery, all within its grounds.
Three interconnected lakes
West, Central and East Lake are linked by canals and walkways across the 43-hectare park, its original 1985 layout by architect Fumiaki Takano.
Wet World Shah Alam
A water theme park on the West Lake, operating since 1996 and marketed as Malaysia's first Green Waterpark for its water-filtration system that reduces chemical use.
Selangor-Japan Friendship Garden
A 2.42-hectare Japanese-style garden on the East Lake, opened 12 March 2021 to mark Selangor's trade and investment ties with Japan.
Habitat for freshwater and migratory wildlife
The park's lakes and greenery support around a hundred species of trees, birds and fish, including migratory bird visitors, within the middle of Shah Alam's civic core.
Galeri Shah Alam
Selangor's state visual art gallery, established 1991, stands within the same lakeside grounds as the park.
It opened in 1985 as Selangor's first public park, a 43-hectare site designed by Japanese architect Fumiaki Takano.
Wet World Shah Alam opened in 1996 on the park's West Lake, one of Malaysia's first water theme parks, and is now marketed as the country's first Green Waterpark.
Yes. It opened on 12 March 2021 on the park's East Lake as a dedicated Japanese-style garden within the wider lake gardens.
It was the first public park in the state, opening in 1985, and helped shape Shah Alam's early identity as a planned, green state capital in the years after the city was founded.
Playscape was an October 2025 design competition held by MBSA with the Malaysian Institute of Landscape Architects (ILAM) for a new, universally accessible children's playground at the park, marking Shah Alam City Council's 25th Silver Jubilee.
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