1 / 8Seoul: Gyeongbokgung & BukchonPhoto: Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0
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Gyeongbokgung was built in 1395 as the main palace of the Joseon dynasty, burned in the 1592 invasion and rebuilt in the 1860s.
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
The main royal palace and the hanok lanes above it, one cluster and no more. Two hours each way means it needs a call of 10 hours or more; on 8 hours, do the old port instead. The palace closes on Tuesdays. Entry ₩3,000, free for foreigners 65 and over and 18 and under (bring your passport). Open 09:00–18:00 in October (last entry 17:00), 09:00–17:00 from November (last entry 16:00).
- This needs 8 hr, so it only fits a 10-hour call or longer. On a shorter one it will cost you the ship, not the view.
Where the 8 hr 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 4 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.
What to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
See · ~3hChinatown & the Jajangmyeon Museum
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.
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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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