How to get to Nami Island? How to get to Sokcho/Mt Seorak from Nami Island?

Our itinerary for Seoul covered 3 main areas:

1) Myeong-dong

2) Nami Island to Sokcho

3) Ewha University

The subway and train stations in Korea are very efficient and you would have no problem navigating the stations provided you know which station you have to disembark at and which exit to take – some stations can have up to 6 different exits. I used the Korea Subway_K-ing app (I’m on Android) and it worked like a breeze. It calculates 2 different routes – one with the fastest way to get there, another, the least amount of transfers. They also have functions for point of interests but I had an existing itinerary so I didn’t use it.

The longest distance we had to travel was from Myeong-dong station to Gapyeong station where you get off and take a taxi to Nami Island’s ferry terminal. We headed to Sokcho after Nami Island so there’s a bit of complication there. Continue reading