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Seongsan Ilchulbong

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Round trip
4 hr 30 min
From the ship and back
Fits
a 4–6 hour stop ashore
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
Why we send people here

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
  • Our number 1 for Jeju, out of ten. It is the first thing we would spend the hours on.
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 means a 2–3 hour stop ashore cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
The story

Why Seongsan Ilchulbong is famous

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. It is part of the UNESCO natural heritage listing of 2007 with the lava tubes and Hallasan. The haenyeo still dive from the cove below it.

Where it is

Seongsan Ilchulbong and your ship

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

The arithmetic

Where the 4 hr 30 min goes

Counted from the moment you step off the gangway. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.

Out1 hr 18 minTaxi ~1h from Jeju Port, 70–85 min from Gangjeong
There1 hr 54 minWhat you came for
Back1 hr 18 minTo the gangway

78 minutes each way is the honest figure for taxi ~1h from jeju port, 70–85 min from gangjeong, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 1 hr 54 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.

The day this belongs to

Routes that already include it

Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.

East Jeju: the crater and the lava tube (Jeju Port)8 hours or more · ~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 →
Eat · ~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 detail →See · ~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 detail →See · ~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.