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For a 7-hour call · Incheon

The old port

The Incheon day: Chinatown, jajangmyeon, the market and the harbour. Timed from the gangway and back.

5 hr door to door7 stopsNeeds a 7-hour call
Open the route in Google Maps, in 3 parts
Photo: 이강철 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Door to door
5 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A 7-hour call or longer
Room to spare
None
What it costs
~₩12,000–15,000 each way
Taxi ~₩12,000–15,000 each way. Museum ₩1,000, lunch ~₩10,000.
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
Best for
The Incheon day: Chinatown, jajangmyeon, the market and the harbour
Room to spare
Fits a 7-hour stop with nothing to add (off the ship 30 minutes after arrival, back at the gangway an hour before all-aboard). A longer call gives you the extra time; on this one, do not add a stop.

Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada

Numbers follow the route below. Pins are the places themselves; walking lines are not drawn because the best way between two stops can change with the tram, the tide or the weather.

Open in Google Maps, in 3 parts

  1. 1Your ship → Incheon Chinatownby taxiGoogle Maps gives no walking or driving directions in Korea: Kakao Map · Naver Map app
  2. 2Incheon Chinatown → Settlement stairs, Jayu Park → Jajangmyeon Museum → Sinpo Market, dakgangjeongon footKakao Map · Naver Map app
  3. 3Sinpo Market, dakgangjeong → Back to the shiptrain or busKakao Map · Naver Map app · 인천항 크루즈터미널 · 인천광역시 연수구 국제항만대로 438

Google Maps on a phone takes three stops between start and end, and none on a train or bus route, so the day opens in parts. Each step below also has its own directions.

The route

How the day runs

Times are from the moment you step off, not from the scheduled arrival. Everything shifts if your ship is late; the order does not.

  1. +0:00
    Taxi to Chinatown (~25 min)

    Or the city shuttle to the Gaehangjang area

    What you will see hereDirections from the ship (by taxi)Kakao Map · Naver Map app
  2. +0:30
    Chinatown gate, the settlement stairs and Jayu Park

    The stairs mark the old Chinese–Japanese boundary

    Directions from the previous stop (on foot)Kakao Map · Naver Map app
    The main gate of Incheon Chinatown
    Photo: 이강철 / CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. +1:15
    The Jajangmyeon Museum

    Opens 09:00; closed Mondays

    Directions from the previous stop (on foot)Kakao Map · Naver Map app
    The Jajangmyeon Museum, Incheon
    Photo: Mobius6 / CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. +2:00
    Jajangmyeon lunch

    Sinseung Banjeom opens at 11:10. On a 07:00 arrival, ride the Wolmi Sea Train first (from 10:00, not Mondays; Wolmi Bada station by Incheon Station) and eat after

    Jajangmyeon where it began, Incheon
    Photo: 최광모 / CC0
  5. +3:00
    Sinpo Market for dakgangjeong

    10 minutes on foot; buy a box for the ship

    What you will see hereDirections from the previous stop (on foot)Kakao Map · Naver Map app
    The gate of Sinpo International Market, Incheon
    Photo: Jjw / CC BY-SA 4.0
  6. +3:50
    Taxi back to the terminal

    ~25 min

    Directions back to the ship (by taxi)Kakao Map · Naver Map app · 인천항 크루즈터미널 · 인천광역시 연수구 국제항만대로 438
  7. +4:20
    Back at the gangway
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The margin is not optional. This route ends an hour before all-aboard on purpose. If you are running late, drop the last stop, not the hour.
What the day looks like

Incheon, along this route

Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.

Korean Emigration History Museum, Incheon
Korean Emigration History MuseumPhoto: Garam / Attribution
Bukchon Hanok Village, Incheon
Bukchon Hanok VillagePhoto: Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0
Chinatown & the Jajangmyeon Museum, Incheon
Chinatown & the Jajangmyeon MuseumPhoto: Mobius6 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Wolmido & the Sea Train, Incheon
Wolmido & the Sea TrainPhoto: Trainholic / CC BY-SA 4.0
Seoul: Gyeongbokgung & Bukchon, Incheon
Seoul: Gyeongbokgung & BukchonPhoto: Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0
Songdo Central Park, Incheon
Songdo Central ParkPhoto: José Carioca / CC BY-SA 4.0
Other routes

The other routes in Incheon

Chinatown & the Jajangmyeon Museum, IncheonThe rainy-day IncheonA wet day · ~4.5hWet weather — a museum, a covered market and a noodle lunchSongdo Central Park, IncheonSongdo, close inNeeds a 4.5-hour call · ~2.5hShort calls — the only sights near the terminalThe Throne Hall from the east, Gyeongbokgung Palace, IncheonOne Seoul clusterNeeds a 9.5-hour call · ~7.5hCalls of 12 hours (10 at the very least) — the palace and Bukchon, nothing else
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