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Ichon-dong

Ichon-dong (Korean: 이촌동) is a neighborhood of Yongsan District, Seoul, South Korea.

Ichon-dong
Ichon-dong · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Ichon-dong (Korean: 이촌동) is a neighborhood of Yongsan District, Seoul, South Korea. It is located in the southwest of the city proper, along the Han River.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ichon-dong

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.

  1. 01
    National Museum of Korea

    The National Museum of Korea is the flagship museum of Korean history and art in South Korea. Since its establishment in 1945, the museum has been committed to various studies and research activities in the fields of archaeology, history, and art, continuously developing a variety of exhibitions and education programs.

    1.3 km · Museum located in Seoul, Republic of Korea · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Namsan Seoul Tower

    Namsan Seoul Tower, also known as the YTN Seoul Tower, Namsan Tower, Seoul Tower or N Seoul Tower, is a communication and observation tower located on the summit of Namsan in central Seoul, South Korea. The 236-metre-tall structure was the nation’s first tower servicing multiple TV and radio broadcasters, and is considered a landmark and symbol of the city.

    4 km · communications tower in Seoul, South Korea · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Chung-Ang University

    Chung-Ang University is a private research university in Seoul, South Korea. The university operates two campuses: its main Seoul city campus located in the Dongjak District; and a second campus in Anseong, Gyeonggi Province.

    1.9 km · South Korean University · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Seoul Central Mosque

    The Seoul Central Mosque is a mosque opened in 1976 in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea. It is located in Hannam-dong, Yongsan District.

    3.1 km · mosque in Seoul, South Korea · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Yoido Full Gospel Church

    Yoido Full Gospel Church is a Pentecostal church affiliated with the Assemblies of God on Yeouido in Seoul, South Korea. With about 870,000 members, it is the largest Pentecostal Christian congregation in South Korea.

    4 km · Pentecostal church · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    63 Building

    The 63 Building, officially called 63 SQUARE, is a skyscraper on the island of Yeouido, overlooking the Han River in Seoul, South Korea. At 249.6 m high, it was the tallest building outside North America when it was opened on July 27, 1985, and it is the second-tallest gold-clad building in the world after Grand Lisboa in Macau.

    2.3 km · skyscraper in South Korea · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Banpo Bridge

    The Banpo Bridge is a major bridge for vehicular traffic over the Han River in central Seoul, South Korea. It is a double-decked bridge, and is above the pedestrian Jamsu Bridge.

    2.7 km · girder bridge · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Soongsil University

    Soongsil University is the first modern university in Korea, dating its history back to 1897. It was founded under the Christian missionary William M. Baird.

    2.8 km · private Christian university in Seoul, South Korea · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Seoul National Cemetery

    Seoul National Cemetery is a cemetery in Dongjak-dong, Dongjak District, Seoul, South Korea. It is reserved for Korean veterans, including those who died in the Korean independence movement, Korean War, and Vietnam War.

    2.4 km · South Korean cemetery · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Mapo Bridge

    The Mapo Bridge crosses the Han River in South Korea and connects the Mapo District and the Yeongdeungpo District in the city of Seoul. Seoul Subway Line 5 also passes directly underneath the bridge through an underwater tunnel.

    3 km · bridge in Seoul · 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 Ichon-dong

Airports
Seoul Gimpo (GMP), 16 km · Incheon (ICN), 46 km · Cheongju/Cheongju Air Base (K-59/G-513) (CJJ), 101 km
Stations
Seoul Station, 3.9 km · Daebang Station, 3.6 km · Noryangjin Station, 2.2 km · Namyeong Station, 2.3 km · Isu Station, 3.9 km
  • Seoul → Ichon-dong
    5 km · quickest by road, 16 min · ₩1,010–1,340
  • Cheongju → Ichon-dong
    109 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · ₩16,450–21,900
  • Gonghang-ro → Ichon-dong
    316 km · quickest by air, 4h 11m · ₩115,080–177,680
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ichon-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 Ichon-dong. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    51 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,256 km
  3. 03
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,422 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,492 km
  5. 05
    Kinmen (Quemoy)TW

    10 ways of moving, 12 sources

    1,666 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ichon-dong

Ichon-dong is 5 km from Seoul, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hoehyeon-dongneighborhood in Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea3.9 km
  • Daebang-dongneighborhood in Dongjak-gu, Seoul, South Korea3.8 km
  • Jungnim-dongneighborhood in Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea3.8 km
  • Yeoui-dongneighborhood in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea3.5 km
  • Ahyeon-dongneighborhood in Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea4 km
  • Heukseok-dongneighborhood in South Korea2.7 km