Senai is a town located in the Kulai District of Johor, Malaysia serving as an industrial hub as well as an aviation hotspot. It is situated along Skudai Highway less than five kilometres south of Kulai and provides for numerous large banking corporations including Maybank, CIMB Bank and RHB Bank. In addition to local prominence, Senai represents a commercial hotspot for tourists and attributes to a yearly growth of visitors.
Community markets are major local attractions in the area including the night market pasar malam and a morning market located in Taman Senai Utama. There are many retail opportunities anchored by the Johor Premium Outlet. Senai’s predominant attraction is the Senai International Airport, servicing more than two million travellers on an annual basis.
Many public bus services route through Senai including TransitLink, Causeway Link, Triton, Maju and S&S. Senai is conveniently connected to Johor Bahru and Kuala Lumpur via the Skudai Highway which is part of Federal Route 1. Shuttles to and from the International Airport provide for transit between the aviation hub and other parts of Malaysia.
Senai is a developing housing community that began as a historical primitive area comprised of pre-World War II shophouses. It was the 1980s that attributed to the first exponential boom of Senai’s residential population.