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Guryongpo Japanese Houses Street

구룡포 일본인 가옥거리

A street of wooden houses left from the Japanese occupation. A stone stairway at its entrance climbs to a park on the hill.

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Guryongpo's Japanese houses street, lined with wooden buildings

Place information

Korean name
구룡포 일본인 가옥거리
Address
153-1 Guryongpo-gil, Guryongpo-eup, Nam-gu, Pohang-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do

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The low rock outcrop of the tomb of King Munmu offshore, white water breaking around it, a pebble beach in the foreground

Tomb of King Munmu

A rock outcrop in the sea, held to be the grave of the king who completed Silla's unification of the Three Kingdoms. It lies offshore from Bonggil-ri, cannot be landed on, and the visit consists of looking at a rock some two hundred metres out from Bonggil Beach. It faces due east, so people gather here at sunrise. It is a little over thirty kilometres east of central Gyeongju, too far to fold into a day among the city-centre tombs.

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A separate journey from Bulguksa with its own travel time, not an annexe of it. Admission has been free since 4 May 2023, and the published times are last-admission times rather than closing times.

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