Ulsan Petroglyph Museum and the Bangucheon petroglyphs
Ulsan Petroglyph Museum and the Bangucheon petroglyphsPhoto: Ulsan Petroglyph Museum / CC BY-SA 3.0
- Getting there
- Taxi ~50 min each way, 37.2 km; about ₩33,000–42,000, our estimate
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · travel times are our map estimates · Takumi Yamada
Whales, hunters and deer cut into the cliffs of the Bangucheon thousands of years ago, inscribed as a World Heritage site on 12 July 2025. The museum stands between the two rock faces, 2.3 km apart, and is free; it closes on Mondays (10 May and 7 June 2027). A free city bus links it with both rocks Wednesday to Sunday, 09:50–17:50, eight runs a day.
- Closed on Mondays. Check the day before you plan around it.
- 2 hr 40 min door to door needs a 5-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
Ulsan Petroglyph Museum and the Bangucheon petroglyphs and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Where the 2 hr 40 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 5 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
What to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
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Some twenty great grass-covered royal tombs of Silla in the middle of Gyeongju.
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The real gold crowns from the Silla tombs, and outside the Bell of King Seongdeok, cast in 771.
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