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⛰️ Over Inwangsan

Seoul · One day · 5 stops · 70% local · ~4.6 km walked (~6,100 steps) · dense pace

Up the fortress wall over bare granite, down through a poet's memorial into the west village for a brass-coin lunch.

⛰ Terrain: demanding. Roughly 3.5km of steep stairs and rock; proper shoes, and not in ice.

🛡 Safety: relaxed. Well-trafficked marked trail. Exposed granite gets slick in rain — the stair sections are the ones to respect.

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Day 1
~4.6 km · ~6,100 steps
Open route ↗

Inwangsan shuts on Mondays for conservation — go any other day. Start early from Sajik-dong and follow the wall up; it is about two hours round trip and the payoff is the whole city with the mountains stacked behind it. Come down the north side past the Yun Dong-ju museum, cut back through Suseongdong Valley, and land in Seochon in time for Tongin Market's lunchbox café — coins at the desk, tray filled stall by stall, and it closes mid-afternoon.

Inwangsan & the Wall

~5h

Fortress rampart over the city, on bare rock

  • Inwangsan

    Fortress wall over bare rock — the city-and-mountains view Bukhansan makes you work three times harder for.

  • Suseongdong Valleylocal

    A granite stream at the top of Seochon, uncovered when the apartment blocks came down in 2012.

  • Yun Dong-ju Literature Museumlocal

    A water-pumping station turned memorial to the poet — three small rooms, one roofless courtyard.

Seochon

~3h

The village at the bottom of the mountain

  • Tongin Marketlocal

    Buy brass coins at the desk, spend them stall to stall, eat the result upstairs — lunchtime only.

  • Seochonlocal

    The palace's west village — low lanes of bookshops, wine bars and hanok galleries, minus Bukchon's tour groups.