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Seongsan Ilchulbong

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Seongsan IlchulbongPhoto: Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0

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Seongsan Ilchulbong erupted from shallow sea about 5,000 years ago, and its rim, 180 metres high, has been a place to watch the sunrise for as long as Jeju has had a calendar of views.

Round trip
4 hr 30 min
From the ship and back
Fits
a 6.5-hour call or longer
Margin already counted
Getting there
Taxi ~1h from Jeju Port, 70–85 min from Gangjeong
See the rides below
Booking
Just turn up
Nothing to reserve

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

Why go

A tuff cone rising straight out of the sea at the island’s eastern tip, climbed in thirty to forty minutes to a crater rim 600 metres across. A UNESCO site; closed the first Monday of the month.

Why it earns the hours
  • Number 1 of ten on our list for Jeju.
Before you count on it
  • Closed the first Monday of the month. Check the day before you plan around it.
  • 4 hr 30 min door to door needs a 6.5-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
Seongsan Ilchulbong from the road, JejuSeongsan Ilchulbong from the ocean, JejuSeongsan Ilchulbong across the water, Jeju
Photo: Yoo Chung / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo: Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Photo: Justin De La Ornellas from China Town, Hawaii / CC BY 2.0
Where it is

Seongsan Ilchulbong and your ship

Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.

The day this belongs to

Routes that already include it

Finished days timed from official timetables and our estimates, with this stop in them.

East Jeju: the crater and the lava tube (Jeju Port), JejuEast Jeju: the crater and the lava tube (Jeju Port)Needs an 8-hour call · ~6h door to doorLong calls at the northern terminal
Pairs well with

What to put beside it

Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.

Build your own day
Dongmun Market, JejuEat · ~2h

Dongmun Market

The city’s covered market, two and a half kilometres from the northern terminal: tangerines and hallabong, dried fish, and a food alley that turns into a night market after dark.

See the detailManjanggul lava tube, JejuSee · ~3h

Manjanggul lava tube

A lava tube over seven kilometres long, one of the longest in the world, with a walkable section lit and decked.

See the detailJusangjeolli cliffs, JejuSee · ~1.5h

Jusangjeolli cliffs

Hexagonal columns of basalt thirty to forty metres high, where lava met the sea and cracked as it cooled.

See the detail
The one rule: be back on board 60 minutes before all-aboard. Build the whole day on the Jeju plan page.
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