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Cheonan
City in South Chungcheong, South Korea

Cheonan

Cheonan is the largest and most densely populated city of South Chungcheong Province, South Korea, and the third largest city in the Hoseo region after Daejeon and Cheongju.

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Cheonan borders Gyeonggi Province in the north, North Chungcheong Province to the east and southeast, Sejong to the south and Asan and Gongju to the west and southwest.

Get in

Getting to Cheonan

The KTX from Seoul takes just 35-40 (depending on which train) minutes to zip to Cheonan-Asan Station, but you'll need to connect to the painfully slow #20 or #13 bus (₩1,200 without a card) to get to central the Shingsegae/Bus Terminal area of Cheonan. Alternatively, you can walk about 200 m to Asan Station, where for ₩1,000 you can get a 5-minute subway (not underground) train ride into Cheonan Station.

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    Cheonan Station
  2. 02
    Cheonan-Asan Station
See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Independence Hall of Korea
  2. 02
    Gakwon Buddhist Temple
  3. 03
    ARARIO Small City

    In 2007, ARARIO Small City was selected as the most beautiful square in Korea, for which it was awarded the Prime Minister Award.

  4. 04
    ARARIO Gallery
  5. 05
    Statue of Peace

    A Statue of peace was made to solve the problem of Japanese military sexual slavery victims.

  6. 06
    Byeongcheon Sundae Street
Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    cheon-ansanglog-akuapia
  2. 02
    Teddin Water Park
  3. 03
    Dad's Love Farm Egg Experience

    You can have a special experience by harvesting eggs yourself, bonding with the chicks, and feeding the chickens.

  4. 04
    Heungtaryeong

    It is held every September for four days.

  5. 05
    Gwangdeok Walnut Festival
  6. 06
    Cheonan Buk-myeon Wirye Cherry Blossom Festival
Eat

Where to eat

Cheonan is famous for Sundae and Hodu-gwaja. Sundae is made by adding seonji, perilla seeds, cabbage, green onions, red pepper, and glutinous rice to the pig's intestines. In the early 1960s, a ham factory was built around Byeongcheon. There were many shops that made sundae to deal with the pig by-products. That's why Cheonan's Sundae became famous. There are many famous sundae gukbap shops in Cheonan.

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    Cheonghwagip Sundae
  2. 02
    Hakhwa

    There is a very big picture of grandmother in front of the store.

  3. 03
    Toujours
  4. 04
    Mount Fishtail
  5. 05
    Sam-ukga

    It's a good place for foreign travelers who are not used to Korean BBQ.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see file page), Wikimedia Commons.