Yeonmijeong Pavilion (연미정) – Homepage www.ganghwa.go.kr www.cha.go.kr – Tel +82-32-930-3124 Yeonmijeong Pavilion is Incheon’s Tangible Cultural Asset No. 24 (designated on March 1, 1995). While the exact date of construction is unknown, the pavilion was greatly damaged and then rebuilt afterwards due to the Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592, the Byeongja Chinese Invasion in…
Incheon International Airport Terminal 2 – Homepage www.airport.kr – Tel +82-1577-2600 Since opening in 2001, Incheon International Airport has been rated as the best airport in the world numerous times. And to further improve, the Terminal 2 officially opened in 2018 after nine years of construction. Terminal 2 was desigend with the concept of an…
Minmeoru Beach (민머루해변) – Homepage minmeoru-beach.co.kr – Tel +82-32-930-3515 Minmeoru Beach is a beach on Seongmodo Island, a small island to the west of Ganghwado Island. Visitors can enjoy sea bathing on the vast stretch of sandy beach and watch beautiful sunsets over the West Sea. When the tide goes out, a mud flat of…
Sky Garden (하늘정원) – Tel +82-32-832-3031 Sky Garden, located next to Incheon International Airport, becomes covered with pink cosmos flowers every fall. Cosmos shimmering in the autumn sunlight creates a fantastic atmosphere by forming waves with gentle breeze. In addition to cosmos, silver grass and pink muhly are added to the 36,000 ㎡ gardens so…
Sorae Port (소래포구) – Homepage itour.incheon.go.krsorae-pogu.co.kr – Tel +82-32-442-6887 Sorae Port is located in Namdong-gu, Incheon, and is one of the most accessible places to feel the sea in the metropolitan area. It has a painful past and is also a tourist destination created by that bitter past. In the late 1930s, it began developing…
Songdo Hanok Village (송도 한옥마을) – Tel +82-32-721-4415 Songdo Hanok Village is a hanok village built in Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon. It is not a village of old traditional houses but a hanok complex newly built in 2013. The contrast between the high-rise buildings of Songdo International City and the hanok complex creates a space where…
Incheon Port International Passenger Terminal (인천항 국제여객선터미널) – Homepage www.icferry.or.kr The Incheon Port International Passenger Terminal was created to develop Incheon Port into an internationally beautiful port for tourism by constructing an international passenger pier and terminal to resolve user inconvenience caused by dual (inner and coastal) operations and increase port operation efficiency. Construction began…
Gyeongin Ara Waterway (경인 아라뱃길) – Homepage www.seo.incheon.kr – Tel +82-1899-3650 Ara Waterway flows 18 kilometers from the Hangang River to the West Sea. Opened in 2012, the waterway serves to quickly remove excess water from the surrounding areas to prevent flooding. The waterway also serves as a key route for transporting cargo via ship,…
Incheon Hwapyeong-dong Sesutdaeya Naengmyeon Steet (인천 화평동 세숫대야 냉면 거리) – Homepage itour.incheon.go.kr The first naengmyeon restaurant to open in Hwapyeong-dong did so in the early to mid-70s. It wasn’t until the early 2000’s that the area saw an influx of over 20 naengmyeon restaurants. These days, visitors can choose from 13 restaurants. In the…
Aramaru Observatory (아라마루 전망대(아라폭포)) – Homepage www.gyeyang.go.kr The Aramaru Observatory, a circular structure perched in the gorge section of Gyeyangsan Mountain, occupies the highest point of the Arabaetgil, a maritime path linking the West Sea with the Hangang River. Renowned for offering the most spectacular vista of the entire Arabaetgil, the observatory features a glass…