Gwacheon
Gwacheon is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
Gwacheon is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It lies in the heart of the Seoul Metropolitan Area, just south of Seoul and east of Anyang. Seoul Subway Line 4 passes through the city.
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Worth seeing in and around Gwacheon
10 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.
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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.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Gwacheon National Science Museum
- 02Gwanaksan
Trails lead towards Yeonjuam and the rocky summit area at Yeonjudae.
- 03Yeonjudae
- 04Seoul Grand Park
- 05National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Gwacheon (국립현대미술관 과천; MMCA Gwacheon), 313 Gwangmyeong-ro (Walk from Grand Park Station exit 2, take the museum shuttle near exit 4, or use the Elephant Train to the zoo stop and walk from there),.
- 06Gwacheon Hyanggyo
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Things to do
- 01LetsRun Park Seoul
- 02Gwanmun Sports Park
A park with green space and sports facilities, suitable for a walk or a break from sightseeing.
- 03Gwacheon Civic Center
- 04Munwon Sports Park
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Where to eat
Most of the restaurants listed below are in the town centre near Government Complex Gwacheon Station. This area is a useful place to eat before or after visiting the attractions around Grand Park Station.
- 01Hang-ari Sujebi
Byeolyang Shopping Mall (259 meters away from Exit 1 of Government Gwacheon Government Complex Station.),.
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Getting to Gwacheon
- Airports
- Seoul Gimpo (GMP), 23 km · Incheon (ICN), 49 km · Cheongju/Cheongju Air Base (K-59/G-513) (CJJ), 91 km
- Stations
- Isu Station, 6.3 km · Dongjak Station, 7.9 km · Sadang Station, 5.1 km · Seonbawi Station, 2.1 km · Namtaeryeong Station, 3.5 km
- Seoul → Gwacheon15 km · quickest by road, 35 min · ₩2,240–2,980
- Cheongju → Gwacheon99 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · ₩14,550–19,400
- Gonghang-ro → Gwacheon21 km · quickest by road, 43 min · ₩3,240–4,320
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Gwacheon
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 Gwacheon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are ferry services to various points in China from the neighboring port city of Incheon.
- Get inNo services run from Japan to Seoul; many Koreans take the coach, KTX or SRT trains to Busan, where several ferry and hydrofoil options are available.
- Go nextMany tour companies offer DMZ tours which is a day trip from Seoul, the highlight of which is a village lying in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea.
From Wikivoyage: Seoul, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Gwacheon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Gwacheon
Gwacheon is 8 km from Anyang-si, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Anyangcity in Gyeonggi province, South Korea7.9 km
- Gunpocity in South Korea8.7 km
- Daechi-dongneighbourhood in Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea8.6 km