1 / 4Chinatown & the Jajangmyeon MuseumPhoto: Ken Eckert / CC BY-SA 4.0
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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 closed on Mondays; the street is not.
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. Gonghwachun, opened in the first decade of the 1900s, is credited with first serving jajangmyeon; it closed in 1983 and its building is now the museum.
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Counted from the moment you step off the gangway. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.
25 minutes each way is the honest figure for taxi 20–30 min, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 2 hr in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
4 hr 30 min for bothA seawater canal through a new city of glass towers, with water taxis and a boardwalk.
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4 hr 50 min for bothChicken fried twice and tossed in a sticky sweet-spicy glaze, sold by the box.
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