Is it possible to make a day-trip to a beach, from Seoul?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 7 Aug, 2023
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Generally, the most popular tourist destination for beaches are located on East and South coast of Korea. With some minor exceptions, I’d avoid West coast in general because most of their beaches look like this:
I know one of your primary concerns is proximity of the destination via public transportation, but what you must know is that Korea has one of the finest public transportation system in the world. Given its system and the size of the country, you could almost reach anywhere in Korea within 3 hours.
My recommendations are Haeundae Beach in Busan] or Gyungpodae Beach in Gangneung. Both locations have clean, swimmable water with lots of infrastructures available.
It takes approximately two hours from Seoul to Busan via KTX + maybe an hour to take the bus in between to get to the station and to the beach, you could easily set yourself a foot on Haeundae within three hours.
To Gyongpodae Beach in Gangneung, you’d have to take a bus in Express Bus Terminal. It takes about 2 hours and 30 minutes by bus + 30 minutes to get to the beach.
Some of the answers here mentioned Eurwangni. If proximity is an absolute must to you… you COULD try Eurwangni I guess, but you’ll probably be disappointed.
If situation allows, I really recommend you take a day or two to visit Busan or Gangneung. Aside from swimming, there are tons of other activities you can do.
You can probably look at Visit Korea site to determine what’s within a reachable distance from where you will be staying in Sinchon
But on a quick look:
- Eurwangni beach – if one is to believe the accuracy of Google Maps Publich Transport information it is reachable in an hour and a half
- Geojampo beach – Also reachable in an hour and a half
Along with several others in Jung-gu as well as several close by but not exactly reachable by public transportation.
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