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Municipal City in South P'yŏngan, North Korea · South Pyongan

Kaech’ŏn

Kaech'ŏn or Kaechon is a city in South P'yŏngan province, North Korea.

Kaech’ŏn
Kaech’ŏn · 元諜報員 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The place

Kaech'ŏn or Kaechon is a city in South P'yŏngan province, North Korea.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Songam Cavern

    Major North Korean tourist destination, with 17 caves to explore.

  2. 02
    Yongpun Lake

From Wikivoyage: Kaech’ŏn, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Kaech’ŏn

Airports
Pyongyang Sunan (FNJ), 57 km · Seoul Gimpo (GMP), 250 km · Incheon (ICN), 252 km
  • Pyongyang → Kaech’ŏn
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · $8–11
  • Seoul → Kaech’ŏn
    255 km · quickest by road, 43h 14m · ₩227,000–303,000
  • Shenyang → Kaech’ŏn
    312 km · quickest by road, 6h 37m · ¥165–220
  • From anywhere
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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 Kaech’ŏn

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 Kaech’ŏn. 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

    260 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,504 km
  3. 03
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,583 km
  4. 04
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,600 km
  5. 05
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,718 km

If you know how people move in Kaech’ŏn – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kaech’ŏn

Kaech’ŏn is 30 km from Sunch’ŏn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.