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Overview

South Korea's third-largest city, Incheon (인천) is an expanding metropolis and industrial port. Its colorful Chinatown and Open Port areas are the most tourist-friendly parts of the city to explore, and easily accessible via subway from Seoul. Come here to eat Chinese food, discover pockets of concession-era architecture, stroll the seafront boardwalk at Wolmido and visit the fish market at Yeonan, where you can catch ferries to the West Sea islands or beyond to China.

Attractions

Must-see attractions

  • Wolmido

    Wolmido

    Incheon

    Historically notable as the site of the Incheon Landing Operations during the Korean War, today the former island of Wolmi (it was joined to the mainland…

  • Incheon Landing Operation Memorial Hall

    Incheon Landing Operation Memorial Hall

    Incheon

    This sombre, strikingly designed museum commemorates the daring attack in which some 70,000 UN and South Korean troops took part in a surprise landing in…

  • Incheon Metropolitan City Museum

    Incheon Metropolitan City Museum

    Incheon

    The city’s main museum offers an excellent collection of celadon pottery and some interesting historical displays dating from the Three Kingdoms. It's…

  • Incheon Art Platform

    Incheon Art Platform

    Incheon

    This attractive complex of 1930s and ‘40s brick warehouses was turned over to the Incheon Foundation for Arts and Culture, which has created gallery…

  • Jajangmyeon Museum

    Jajangmyeon Museum

    Incheon

    Housed in a building dating to 1907, this imaginative museum celebrates the origins of the much-loved noodle dish jajangmyeon, thought to be adapted from…

  • Jayu Park

    Jayu Park

    Incheon

    You can explore this picturesque hilltop park, designed by a Russian civil engineer in 1888, while walking between Chinatown and the Open Port area. It…

  • Daebul Hotel

    Daebul Hotel

    Incheon

    Dubbed the 'first western hotel in Korea', this three-storey brick building is a recreation of an old merchants hotel that stood on this spot from 1888 to…

  • Wolmi Park

    Wolmi Park

    Incheon

    This large, forested park has walking trails, a replica of a traditional Korean garden, and the hilltop Wolmi Observatory, offering views across the port…

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