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Banghwa-dong

Banghwa-dong (Korean: 방화동) is a dong (neighborhood) of Gangseo District, Seoul in Seoul, South Korea.

Banghwa-dong
Banghwa-dong · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Banghwa-dong (Korean: 방화동) is a dong (neighborhood) of Gangseo District, Seoul in Seoul, South Korea.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Banghwa-dong

6 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
    Banghwa Bridge

    The Banghwa Bridge is a bridge in South Korea. It crosses the Han River, connecting the Gangseo District, Seoul with Goyang, Gyeonggi Province.

    1.7 km · bridge · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ara Canal

    The Ara Canal or Gyeongin Ara Waterway is a canal in South Korea linking the Han River to the Yellow Sea, bypassing the Korean Demilitarized Zone that the river's estuary lies in. It extends from the Geomdan-gu district in Incheon to the Gangseo-gu district in Seoul.

    3 km · canal in South Korea connecting Seoul to the Yellow Sea · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Haengju Bridge

    The Haengju Bridge crosses the Han River in South Korea and connects the city of Goyang and the Gangseo District, Seoul. The bridge was first completed in 1978, but the bridge was very narrow and could not handle the increased traffic as the neighboring cities of Ilsan and Bucheon experienced housing booms.

    2.6 km · bridge · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Heojun Museum

    Heojun Museum is a municipal museum in Gayang 2-dong, Gangseo District, Seoul, South Korea to commemorate the legacy of Heo Jun, a court physician during the reign of King Seonjo of the mid Joseon Dynasty of Korea.

    3.4 km · Biographical museum in Seoul, South Korea · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Haengjusanseong

    Haengjusanseong is an ancient Korean fortress in Deogyang District, Goyang, South Korea. On January 21, 1963, it was designated Historic Site of South Korea No.

    2.8 km · ancient fortress in Goyang, South Korea · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    National Aviation Museum of Korea

    The National Aviation Museum of Museum is an aerospace museum in Gimpo, South Korea.

    2.2 km · aviation museum in Gimpo, 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.

Go there

Getting to Banghwa-dong

Airports
Seoul Gimpo (GMP), 3 km · Incheon (ICN), 34 km · Cheongju/Cheongju Air Base (K-59/G-513) (CJJ), 113 km
Stations
Gimpo International Airport, 2.6 km · Gimpo International Airport Station, 1.9 km · Songjeong Station, 1.7 km · Banghwa Station, 200 m · Ujangsan Station, 3.6 km
  • Cheongju → Banghwa-dong
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · ₩17,650–23,550
  • Gonghang-ro → Banghwa-dong
    327 km · quickest by air, 3h 41m · ₩96,570–149,730
  • Daegu → Banghwa-dong
    247 km · quickest by road, 4h 45m · ₩33,300–44,400
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Banghwa-dong

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 Banghwa-dong. 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

    41 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,263 km
  3. 03
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,421 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,496 km
  5. 05
    Kinmen (Quemoy)TW

    10 ways of moving, 12 sources

    1,665 km

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

Around it

Next door to Banghwa-dong

Banghwa-dong is 9 km from Bucheon-si, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Gonghang-dongneighborhood in Gangseo-gu, Seoul, in South Korea3 km