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Wolmido was an island until reclamation joined it to the city. The Sea Train, opened in 2019, is an elevated two-car line that circles it above the harbour.
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
An elevated two-car train that circles the old island over the harbour, with the waterfront promenade at the end. ₩11,000 on weekdays, ₩14,000 at weekends, with one free re-boarding the same day. Closed on Mondays, and it stops in high wind. It runs 10:00–18:00 (to 19:00 Friday to Sunday and holidays, April–October); the last loop leaves Wolmi Bada station at about 17:05 on 18:00 days. Over-65s pay ₩8,000 on weekdays, ₩10,000 at weekends.
- Closed on Mondays, and it stops in high wind. 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.
Wolmido & the Sea Train 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 1 hr 50 min 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 old portNeeds a 7-hour call · ~5h door to doorThe Incheon day: Chinatown, jajangmyeon, the market and the harbour
One Seoul clusterNeeds a 9.5-hour call · ~7.5h door to doorCalls of 12 hours (10 at the very least) — the palace and Bukchon, nothing elseWhat 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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