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City Tour Bus, an easy way to get around Seoul, South Korea
Seoul has an official city tour bus. If you live in Seoul, you don’t really need to take a city tour bus, but when you go abroad, you take a lot of buses for city tours. My family also took the Seoul city tour bus because my child loves cars and is especially romantic about buses.
Using the Tigerverse as a guide, there are two courses
1) The Namsan Course of the City Center Palace departs every 60 minutes and goes around the course by Tiger Bus.
Gwanghwamun – Myeongdong – Namsan Gol Hanok Village – Ambassador Hotel – Silla Hotel / Jangchungdang Park – Seoul Tower – Namsan Hyatt Hotel – Dongdaemun DDP – Daehakro – Changgyeonggung Palace – Changdeokgung Palace – Cheongwadae University – Gyeongbokgung Palace – Sejong Cultural Center – Gwanghwamun Course
2) The second is the night view course, which is only available once a day, so you need to reserve a ticket well in advance. (Departure 19:30)
The price is 24,000 won for adults and 15,000 won for children for the Namsan Course. (The discount price in April is 21,000 won based on the website. I think most of the time they have events all the time) Inquiries: 02-777-6090
Closed: Every Monday is a regular holiday.
Reservations can be made on the official website.
The night view course costs 19,000 won for adults and 12,000 won for children. Children are 6 years old or older, and are free for 23 years from birth on January 1, 2019. One child under 5 years old rides free when accompanied by a guardian.
If you want to get off the bus as it goes, you can get off and go sightseeing and then get back on at a fixed point on the route. Usually, overseas tourists get off at Myeongdong and spend 1 to 2 hours sightseeing, but our child also likes N Seoul Tower, so we got off here and rode the route back.
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You can reserve tickets online in advance or buy them at the ticket box at Gwanghwamun Station. All seats are unreserved, so just because you reserve a seat doesn’t mean you’ll get it. If you want to board the first train at 9:30, you’ll have to wait 30 minutes in line to get a good seat on the second floor. During peak periods, you may have to stand up, so it’s best to get there earlier than you plan. The last train to Gwanghwamun Square is at 16:30.
To board, take Exit 6 of Gwanghwamun Station and walk down the street towards the Koreana Hotel, where you will find the ticket box and boarding point.
Bus lover child ride City Tour Bus
It was a city tour that my child had been studying for a long time, so I packed it carefully. With the hat and sunglasses I brought in my bag, it was perfect! After setting up, we took a good seat on the shade seat on the second floor. As you can see, it is a two-story bus, and everyone tends to prefer the second floor. There are also seats on the second floor with shades and hot seats. It is still spring sunshine, so it may be good to have a cool open place, but in broad daylight, the sun is strong and can be very irritating. We took a seat on the back shade for my child.
Of course, I thought there would be more foreigners, but there were surprisingly many Koreans. Seoul is familiar to those who live here, but I think it’s okay to do a city tour like this once in a while when you come from another part of the world.
The bus explains the main areas as we travel, and there seems to be a system where you can plug in earphones on the bus and listen to it in foreign languages.
Hop on hop off bus
After passing through the familiar downtown area, we finally arrived at Namsan, where many people got off. You can take your time and walk around for about an hour and a half, see Namsan, and get back on the bus at the same place where you got off. It’s best to come a little earlier than the scheduled time to get a good seat.
This is my son, who is in a better mood because the air is good and he came to Namsan Tower on the city tour bus. I always think about it, but children have so many different expressions, and I like it. At first, they seemed to have difficulty taking pictures, but I always took pictures with my camera or cell phone, so now they naturally pose…
I think kids now probably have more memories than when we were younger, and they can look back on the photos in the cloud later. As a parent, I think it’s good to capture as many of their moments as possible so they can look back on them later. I think that’s why blogging is a way to capture those moments in more detail.
It’s a bit of a walk to Namsan from the bus stop, but it’s a bit of a hill, but it’s green and worth it. Your son, who went up first…
At N Seoul Tower, we had a quick look around the top and ate before heading back down. It was a bit hot that day, so I didn’t take many photos at the top.
I think kids now probably have more memories than when we were younger, and they can look back on the photos in the cloud later. As a parent, I think it’s good to capture as many of their moments as possible so they can look back on them later. I think that’s why blogging is a way to capture those moments in more detail.
Back to the Gwanghwamun.
We got back on the bus at the same place we started. We were number one. We got back on the bus and it took us through Dongdaemun and the palace course, past the Blue House, etc. If you’re traveling with kids, I recommend not over-scheduling and just stopping at one or two places. We got back on the bus at Gwanghwamun Square and walked around for a bit.
The kids loved playing in the water, and we ended up getting soaked to the skin and had to dry off before we could get home.
Here’s a sunset photo of Gwanghwamun.
