For almost anyone who travels, there’s a certain romance associated with rail travel that other modes of transportation can’t quite match. Flight had its moment of glam in the postwar years, but few still find anything romantic about the process of contemporary air travel with its steadily decreasing comforts and increasing security indignities. Boat travel…
If there’s one station that can be said to be the center of Seoul’s subway system, the nexus from which everything expands and to which it returns, it’s Jongno-3-ga. One of the system’s oldest stations, it’s also one of the few that connect more than two lines, and it sits right in the heart of…
Not to be confused with next door Dobongsan, Dobong Station sits perched on concrete pillars above Dobong-ro (도봉로). Below the tracks is an arcade lined with small restaurants, and due west a handful of apartment towers line up like dominoes. I started on that side of the station, crossing the street from Exit 2. Shops…
Continuing our recent explorations of northeastern Seoul, this post brings us to Banghak Station, which is a bit inconspicuous on a backstreet just off Dobong-ro (도봉로). Exit 1 drops you off within sight of the main drag, and just outside the walls of the tracks are cheerfully painted with bright pictures of people riding the…
The Noryangjin area of Seoul, which nestles against the eastern end of Yeouido, is known above all else for its enormous fish market, one of the country’s largest. And we will certainly get to that, but first we’re going to go on a brief tour of the surprisingly nice neighborhood around the market. ‘Around the…
Seoul Sub→urban 