Imjingak, the Third Tunnel and Dora Observatory: Two of the Three Are Shuttle-Only

That last row is the most important one in the table. Paju City does not publish opening or closing times for Imjingak itself — only that admission is free. The times above belong to the paid facilities inside it, not to Imjingak.

And it is easy to misread whose "closed Mondays" is whose. The gondola's fare page lists Camp Greaves alongside it, and the closure on Mondays, 1 January and the Seollal and Chuseok holidays is Camp Greaves'. What closes the gondola on a schedule is the quarterly safety inspection.

"Ticketing ends at 14:30" explains only half of this route.

• You book a departure. Individual shuttles leave ten times a day Tuesday to Friday, from 09:20 to 14:40, and fourteen times at weekends.
• That departure decides how you go down. Paju City marks each slot in advance as monorail or walking. What you choose is the slot, not the method.
• Ticket collection closes before departure. Twenty minutes before for online bookings, ten for on-the-day purchases, and everyone passes an ID check before collection. Dora Observatory requires ID too.
• It sells out before 14:30 often enough to plan around.

There is also one stop condition that no timetable can express. Paju City warns that under a security situation or bad weather every departure can be halted without notice and existing bookings cancelled. It has no dates, so it cannot be written as a closure rule — and it cannot be treated as absent either.

Imjingak Tourist Site is free at every age. What costs money is inside it and beyond it.

The Third Tunnel — the price divides by how you descend.

That last row is called exempt and it is not zero. What is waived is the facility fee; the shuttle charge remains.

Dora Observatory — reaching the observatory is inside the tour price. What costs extra is a paid telescope, 500 won for two minutes. There are 34 telescopes, 31 of them for visitors.

The Peace Gondola — round trip, standard cabin 12,000 for adults and 10,000 for children; the transparent-floor crystal cabin is 15,000 and 13,000. Groups of 20 or more pay 11,000 and 14,000 for adults. Adult means middle-school age to under 65; child means over three years old through elementary school.

The Imjingak Tourist Site page gives parking in three bands — 1,000 won for light vehicles, 2,000 for small and mid-size, 5,000 for large.

The city's own DMZ Peace Tour page gives the same car park in four — 1,000 for light cars, 2,000 for passenger cars, 3,000 for mid-size, 5,000 for buses. The 3,000-won mid-size band exists on only one of them.

Only Paju City can say which is right, so both are recorded here. It is a difference that only bites if you arrive in something van-sized.