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Municipal city in North Hwanghae Province, North Korea

Sariwŏn-si

Sariwŏn is a city in North Korea.

Sariwŏn-si
Sariwŏn-si · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
The place

Sariwŏn is a city in North Korea. It is the capital and largest city of North Hwanghae Province.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sariwŏn-si

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Songbulsa

    Sŏngbul-sa is a Korean Buddhist temple in Sariwŏn, North Hwanghae Province, North Korea. It is located within the castle on Mt.

    8.3 km · Korean Buddhist temple in Sariwŏn · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Chongbang Fortress

    Jŏngbang Castle is a Koguryo-era mountain fortress located outside Sariwŏn, North Hwanghae Province, North Korea. Cresting the ridges of Mt.

    7.7 km · mountain fortress in Sariwŏn, North Korea · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Sariwon Folklore street was built after the war to show what ancient Korea looked like. Available on official government tours.

  1. 01
    North Hwanghae Arts Theatre
  2. 02
    Songbulsa Temple

From Wikivoyage: Sariwŏn-si, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Sariwŏn-si

Airports
Pyongyang Sunan (FNJ), 80 km · Incheon (ICN), 130 km · Seoul Gimpo (GMP), 139 km
Stations
Sariwon Chongnyon Station, 500 m · Tongsariwon Station, 4.4 km · Chongbang Station, 6.4 km · Pongsan Station, 9.8 km · Sobongsan Station, 7.8 km
  • Pyongyang → Sariwŏn-si
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · $5–7
    GuideToday
  • Seoul → Sariwŏn-si
    150 km · quickest by road, 44h 46m · ₩239,000–318,000
    GuideToday
  • Cheongju → Sariwŏn-si
    258 km · quickest by air, 10h 13m · ₩153,490–237,920
    GuideToday
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sariwŏn-si

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Sariwŏn-si. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    137 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,373 km
  3. 03
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,473 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,584 km
  5. 05
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,675 km

If you know how people move in Sariwŏn-si – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Sariwŏn-si

Sariwŏn-si is 40 km from Namp’o, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Sariwoncity in North Hwanghae Province, North Korea500 m
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