Paju Samneung Royal Tombs

파주 삼릉

Gongneung, Sulleung and Yeongneung in one precinct. Of the three, only Sulleung was built to the full royal-tomb form — its occupant alone died holding the rank of queen.

Language

Gongneung from above: the path running straight from the red spirit gate at the bottom up to the T-shaped shrine, with the burial ground beyond it on a hill closed in by woods

Place information

Korean name: 파주 삼릉
Address: 89 Samneung-ro, Jori-eup, Paju, Gyeonggi-do
Opening hours: Feb–May, Sep–Oct 09:00–18:00 (last entry 17:00) Jun–Aug 09:00–18:30 (last entry 17:30) Jan, Nov–Dec 09:00–17:30 (last entry 16:30)
Closed: Every Mon (open if it falls on a public holiday; closed the next weekday instead)
Time needed: 1 hour
Admission: ₩1,000
Operated by: Royal Palaces and Tombs Centre

Google Maps Naver Map KakaoMap Official site

Prices

Adult(domestic visitors 25-64, foreign visitors 19-64)	₩1,000
Admission(Korean nationals aged 24 and under or 65 and over (photo ID required))	Free
Admission(foreign visitors aged 18 and under or 65 and over)	Free
Admission(visitors wearing hanbok, including modernised hanbok)	Free
the last Wednesday of each month, Culture Day	Free
Group(groups of ten or more)	₩800

Source: Royal Palaces and Tombs Centre — royal tomb admission · Aug 19, 2026

What to see

Paju Samneung’s ritual house from above: main hall and service ranges set around a courtyard inside a rubble wall, with a wide bare forecourt outside it

Jaesil (Ritual House)

The ritual house is both the working quarters of the officials who managed the tomb and the place where the memorial rites were prepared.

궁능유적본부 (royal.khs.go.kr, KOGL Type 1)

Nearby

Yereung head-on: behind the shrine, two mounds side by side inside one curved screen wall on the hill, with stone figures ranged in two rows in front of them

Seosamneung Royal Tombs

Three royal tombs and two princely graves, and beside them the royal placenta chambers gathered here from all over the country under Japanese rule — where what became of them can be seen at once.

Olleung head-on: the flagstone path running to the platform of the T-shaped shrine, and beyond it, up the grass slope under the pines, the mound and its stone figures

Olleung Royal Tomb

The tomb of Queen Dangyeong, Jungjong’s first queen. She was buried as a deposed consort and restored some 180 years later, at which point the grave became a royal tomb. It is one of the few Joseon royal tombs that charges no admission.

Paju Jangneung’s burial ground from above: a single mound inside its curved screen wall with a balustrade and no panels, and on the two terraces below it the civil and military figures, stone horses and stone lantern

Paju Jangneung Royal Tomb

The joint tomb of Injo and Queen Inyeol. When it was moved, the old stone figures were kept alongside newly carved ones, so seventeenth- and eighteenth-century tomb statuary stands side by side.

Ingneung’s shrine head-on, its main hall extended on both sides by open colonnaded wings with no walls, and the balustraded burial ground on the hill behind

Seooreung Royal Tombs

Five royal tombs and three lesser graves in one wood. Sukjong lies here with two of his queens, and so does Jang Hui-bin — one reign’s cast inside a single set of walls. It opens at 07:00 under the early-admission rule.

Stories about this place

Gyeonggi's Joseon Royal Tombs: 12 Compared by Fee, Hours and Area
All twelve Joseon royal tomb precincts in Gyeonggi Province, compared on how many tombs each gathers, what can only be seen there, admission and opening time, with how to group them by city for a day out. All twelve close on Mondays; Yeoju's Yeongneung and Yeongneung and Yangju's Olleung differ on admission, and Donggureung, Seooreung and Gimpo Jangneung open earlier.

Share: X Facebook