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Ansan

Ansan is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.

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The place

Ansan is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It lies southwest of Seoul and is part of the Seoul Metropolitan Area. It is connected to Seoul by rail via Seoul Subway Line 4. It is situated on the Yellow Sea coast and some islands lie within its jurisdiction. The largest and best-known of these is Daebu Island.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ansan

8 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
    Seoul Institute of the Arts

    Seoul Institute of the Arts is an arts university in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. The Namsan campus in Seoul is used for presentation of arts productions and convergence with industry.

    2 km · University in Seoul, South Korea · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ansan Wa Stadium

    Ansan Wa~ Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It's currently served as home stadium for Ansan Greeners FC. The stadium was opened in 2007 and has a capacity of 35,000 people.

    1.3 km · stadium in South Korea · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Surisan

    Surisan is a 488 metres mountain located in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, straddling the cities of Anyang and Gunpo. Designated as Gyeonggi Provincial Park by the Gyeonggi Provincial Government in 2009, the mountain is notable for its cultural and natural significance.

    9.5 km · Korean mountain · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Gyeonggi Museum of Art

    The Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art is an art museum opened in 2006 in Ansan, South Korea as an art and cultural institution for 13 million residents. Founded by Gyeonggi Province and operated by the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, the Gyeonggi-do Museum of Modern Art has grown into a representative art museum in the Seoul metropolitan area by communicating with visitors through collection, preservation, research, exhibition and education activities of modern art, which will be a future asset of Gyeonggi-do.

    2 km · South Korean contemporary art museum · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Tech University of Korea

    Tech University of Korea, formerly Korea Polytechnic University, is a polytechnic university in South Korea. KPU was established in 1998 by support from the Korea Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy.

    9.3 km · polytechnic university in South Korea · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ansan Reed Marsh Park

    Ansan Reed Marshy Park is a wetland park located in Sadong, Sangnok District, Ansan-si, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. As the first man-made wetland in Korea, the park which began construction in 1997 and was completed in December 2005, was originally called Sihwa Lake Wetland Park, but in April 2014, the jurisdiction of the park was divided between Ansan City and Hwaseong City from the Korea Water Resources Corporation, the part of Ansan City is called Ansan Reed Marshy Park, and the part of Hwaseong City is called Bibong Marshy Park.

    5.3 km · wetland park in Ansan, South Korea · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Shin Ansan University

    Shin Ansan University is a private university in Ansan City, which lies south of Seoul in Gyeonggi province. It offers degree programs in social science, tourism, physical education, industrial design, engineering, and computers.

    2.2 km · technical college in Ansan City · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Hwaseong Heroes Baseball Park

    Hwaseong Heroes Baseball Park is a baseball stadium in Hwaseong, South Korea. The stadium is used by the Hwaseong Heroes of the KBO Futures League.

    6.1 km · Stadium in Hwaseong, South 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.

Do

Things to do

There are several regular festivals in Ansan.

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

Eat

Where to eat

There are many foreign restaurants including Indian, Indonesian, Pakistani and others mostly being situated near Ansan station. Ansan is renowned for its diverse international food scene, centered around the Multicultural Food Street in Wongok-dong near Ansan Station.

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

Go there

Getting to Ansan

Airports
Seoul Gimpo (GMP), 27 km · Incheon (ICN), 38 km · Cheongju/Cheongju Air Base (K-59/G-513) (CJJ), 89 km
Stations
Oido Station, 9.8 km · Hanyang University at Ansan Station, 1.9 km · Gojan Station, 900 m · Jeongwang Station, 8.9 km · Choji Station, 2.4 km
  • Cheongju → Ansan
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · ₩13,200–17,600
  • Gonghang-ro → Ansan
    27 km · quickest by road, 52 min · ₩3,690–4,920
  • Daegu → Ansan
    226 km · quickest by road, 4h 25m · ₩31,400–41,900
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ansan

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 Ansan. 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

    38 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,234 km
  3. 03
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,396 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,468 km
  5. 05
    Kinmen (Quemoy)TW

    10 ways of moving, 12 sources

    1,641 km

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Around it

Next door to Ansan

Ansan is 1 km from Ansan-si, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.