Neighbourhood · 18 places
Seoul's busiest shopping warren — cosmetics, fashion and a nightly carnival of street-food carts — rises toward Namsan and the N Seoul Tower that crowns it. Shop and snack by day, then ride the cable car up for the skyline at dusk.
The city's hilltop landmark and 360° skyline view.
Seoul's cosmetics-and-snacks shopping mecca.
Korea's mother church, a Gothic landmark of 1898.
Five restored noble houses and a garden below Namsan.
A 1970s highway overpass reborn as an elevated skygarden.
The 1925 old Seoul Station, restored as a cultural exhibition hall.
Reliable soft-tofu stew, many branches.
Beloved 1930s gomtang beef rice-soup.
Myeongdong stalwart for sizzling stone-bowl bibimbap.
Legendary knife-cut noodles and garlicky dumplings.
Restrained Pyongyang-style clear cold noodles.
The everywhere 'gimbap heaven' all-rounder.
Myeongdong's since-1960 roast & fried chicken.
The bingsu chain that started the snow-ice craze.
Basement food hall for snacks and edible gifts.
Michelin-listed Namsan bibimbap in a hanok.
Golden Olive fried chicken, worldwide chain.
Lavish basement food hall for gourmet gifts.
