Wolmido
월미도
The seaward edge of Incheon beside the working port, and the city's oldest day-out strip. Wolmi Culture Street runs 600 metres along the shore, lined with raw-fish restaurants, cafés, fairground rides and portrait artists, with the Moonlight Music Fountain playing on the waterfront in front of it. Behind that, Wolmisan was shut for fifty years as a military post until the city bought it and opened it as a park in 2001; it now holds an observation deck, a reconstructed Korean traditional garden and the Korean Emigration History Museum.
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Place information
- Korean name
- 월미도
- Nearest station
- Gyeongin and Suin–Bundang lines. Change there to bus 2, 10 or 45 and alight at the Wolmi Park stop. · Incheon Station, Wolmi Sea Train · Wolmi Park Station
- Opening hours
- Wolmi Park Mar–Oct summer 05:00–23:00 (last entry 22:00) Wolmi Park Jan–Feb, Nov–Dec winter 05:00–22:00 (last entry 21:00)
- Hours notes
- The timetable belongs to Wolmi Park, laid out on the hill inside the island. Wolmi Culture Street along the shore is outside the park and does not keep these hours.
Accessibility and facilities
Wolmi Park lists as its principal facilities the Wolmi traditional garden, the observation deck, Wolmiseong, the Korean Emigration History Museum and a multi-purpose ground. Eleven walking paths run through it: the longest is the 2.3 km perimeter path, the climb to the deck is 0.15 km, and a separate 0.4 km step-free route runs from the sports ground to Dondae junction.
Nearby
Incheon Chinatown
The Chinese quarter on the old treaty-port hill, and where jajangmyeon is held to have been invented. The streets themselves never close and each shop keeps its own hours, so aim for lunchtime rather than for an opening time.
Gonghwachun
A Chinese restaurant in Chinatown, serving a jajangmyeon of its own built on seafood, vegetables and potato rather than pork.
Sinpo Sundae
A sundae house run by two generations over thirty-six years near Sinpo market, designated a Century Shop by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups.
Seongjin Multeombeongi
A monkfish house on the Yonghyeon-dong multeombeong street; multeombeong is the local name for the fish.
Nearby Food
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Where these facts come from
- Incheon Metropolitan City's parks portal — Wolmi Park (a park made after the city bought the former military site in 2001; closed to the public for fifty years while the army held it; area 588,099.3 m²; principal facilities given as the Wolmi traditional garden, the observation deck, Wolmiseong, the Korean Emigration History Museum and a multi-purpose ground. The park opens at 05:00 all year, with last entry 22:00 and closing 23:00 from March to October and last entry 21:00 and closing 22:00 from November to February. It names eleven paths with their lengths, from the 2.3 km Wolmi Perimeter Path down to the 0.07 km Sup-yeollim Path, including a 0.4 km step-free route. Its own directions are: alight at Incheon Station, take bus 2, 10 or 45 and get off at the Wolmi Park stop; or take the Wolmi Sea Train to Wolmi Park station.) ·
- Korea Tourism Organization — Wolmi Culture Street and the Moonlight Music Fountain (a 600 m pedestrian-only street; benches and portrait artists; views over Incheon Port as it passes Wolmi Park and the observatory; the Wolmi Sea Train; raw-fish restaurants and cafés; the fountain itself) ·
- OpenStreetMap — the Wolmido island object. This record is neither the culture street alone nor the park alone but the whole of Wolmido that holds both, so the pin sits on the island. ·