Tag: Hotel Yaja Yeongdeungpo

  • Day 76 – Seoul to Chuncheon

    Today after breakfast we left our hotel in Yeongdeungpo and caught two trains to Chuncheon. We used the Naver Maps App (better than Google Maps in South Korea). The journey took just over 2 hours and felt very efficient like in Japan. Naver Map shows two different trains ITX (express trains) and Korail service. The […]

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  • Day 75 – Seoul

    Today we did laundry which was well overdue. When we first asked our hotel they mentioned that there is a free washing machine / dryer in the kitchen that we can use. We were thinking “score!” Since all the controls were in Korean and the staff didn’t speak too much English, we used a combination […]

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  • Day 73 – Seoul

    Today we travelled by train to the infamous Seodaemun Prison History Hall which was built around 1910 and is where the Japanese held Korean prisoners (Korea was colonised/occupied by the Japanese from 1910 until 1945). The Prison has been converted into a museum, with explanations of how the Japanese ruled. The cells and even the […]

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