Yongsan-dong
Worth seeing in and around Yongsan-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.
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Main gate of Seoul fortress; one of The Four Great Gates (cardinal) as one of The Eight Gates of Seoul as part of the Fortress Wall of Seoul, South Korea
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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.
Getting to Yongsan-dong
- Airports
- Seoul Gimpo (GMP), 17 km · Incheon (ICN), 48 km · Cheongju/Cheongju Air Base (K-59/G-513) (CJJ), 103 km
- Stations
- Seoul Station, 1.6 km · Dongdaemun Station, 3.6 km · Namyeong Station, 1.2 km · Jonggak Station, 2.9 km · Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station, 3.1 km
- Seoul → Yongsan-dong2 km · quickest by road, 8 min · ₩445–600
- Cheongju → Yongsan-dong110 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · ₩15,550–20,700
- Gonghang-ro → Yongsan-dong316 km · quickest by air, 4h 14m · ₩118,230–183,380
- 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 Yongsan-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 Yongsan-dong. 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 Yongsan-dong – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Yongsan-dong
Yongsan-dong is 2 km from Seoul, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Seoulcapital and largest city of South Korea1.8 km
- Seoul City Wallinvasion barrier wall(s) surrounding downtown area of Seoul, South Korea built 1396-13983.8 km
- Insa-dongneighborhood in Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea3.2 km