1 / 4Chinatown & the Jajangmyeon MuseumPhoto: Mobius6 / CC BY-SA 4.0
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Incheon opened to foreign trade in 1883, and Chinese merchants settled on the slope below Jayu Park, where the gate and the painted stairs still mark the old line between the Chinese and Japanese settlements.
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
Korea’s first Chinatown, laid out when the port opened to foreign trade in the 1880s, with the red-brick restaurant where jajangmyeon was first served now a small museum to the dish. The museum is open 09:00–18:00 (last entry 17:30), costs ₩1,000 and is closed on Mondays; the street, the stairs and Jayu Park are open every day.
- Number 1 of ten on our list for Incheon.
- Closed on Mondays; the street, the stairs and Jayu Park are open every day. Check the day before you plan around it.
- 2 hr 50 min door to door needs a 5-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
Chinatown & the Jajangmyeon Museum and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Where the 2 hr 50 min goes
The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside. The minutes are our estimates from timetables and maps, not timed on the ground.
If your ship is late, cut the 2 hr in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
Routes that already include it
Finished days timed from official timetables and our estimates, with this stop in them.
The rainy-day IncheonA wet day · ~4.5h door to doorWet weather — a museum, a covered market and a noodle lunch
The old portNeeds a 7-hour call · ~5h door to doorThe Incheon day: Chinatown, jajangmyeon, the market and the harbourWhat to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
Eat · ~2.5hJajangmyeon where it began
Wheat noodles under a black-bean sauce, the Chinese-Korean dish every Korean eats on moving day.
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Eat · ~2hDakgangjeong at Sinpo Market
Chicken fried twice and tossed in a sticky sweet-spicy glaze, sold by the box.
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See · ~3hWolmido & the Sea Train
An elevated two-car train that circles the old island over the harbour, with the waterfront promenade at the end.
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