My Busan Tour Day 2 – Travel Guide to Yongdusan Park and Busan Tower

We continued our Busan 2nd day tour here. It was also the 4th day of our Korean trip last year.

After our Friday night explore to Gwangalli Beach Busan and trying the super duper great Samgyeopsal meal, we decided to visit Busan downtown on the next day. We had fantastic fish and rice breakfast in the morning Jagalchi market and caught the sight of how local Korean spent their morning hours on the dock. Later, just opposite Jagalchi Market, the Gwangbok-dong cultural and fashion street was our next stop. In the afternoon session, we continued to stroll up to Yongdusan Park and Busan Tower to take a helicopter view down to Busan city. Before the sun set, Jean and I had a brief rest in a cafe and continued to experience the world’s largest water fountain musical display in Lotte departmental store.

Our story continues here…

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Still remember the direct escalator access to Yongdusan Park from Gwangbok-dong shopping street? Yes. It is definitely the easiest and shortest way to go up hill. Nevertheless, with the “help” of Google Map, we followed the long way… (we should have used Waze in this case). Oops! Yes. We activated Data Roaming during our Korean tour for RM39 unlimited per day. I used to bring along a mobile WiFi device for our Japan trip earlier, but the short battery life made it worthless for full day outing. Travel Tips: The main advantage of a mobile WiFi device is its capiblity of sharing data usage among multiple devices, but you need to bring along an extra battery pack or power bank. 🙂

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This is what I called the long way, Gwangbokjungang-ru. Definitely not the wrong way, it is just a bit far from Gwangbok-dong main street. If you have the leisure, this could be a better route to explore the area.

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About 100m away, you will be relieved to spot an overhead signboard showing the right direction to Yongdusan Park!

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Not quite there yet, you still need to walk further and come to the bottom of the hill, or the main access motor road going up and down the hill park.

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This is good news. By following this way, you will be able to see how local people exercising and jogging along the road. 🙂

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Hooray! We reached to the top finally. This is Yongdusan Park and Busan Tower.

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Yongdusan Park is the leisure centre for especially eldery in Busan. You can see them wandering around and chit chatting with friends and so on.

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The prominent feature of the park, beside the tower, is the Statue of Yi Sun-sin, the local Korean hero in the 16th century.

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There is a stage for performance during the weekend. We were there in Saturday so there were staffs there prepare for the show.

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Yongdusan means the mountain with shape resembling the dragon head.

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Our main interest of Yongdusan Park was off course to climb up the Busan Tower. The only activity to do on top of it is to take a helicopter view of the bustling city of Busan. And to end up with ‘Wow’s’.

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This is the first Wow: The view of Busan harbor with Lotte, one of the largest departmental store in Busan beside Shinsagae of Centum city, and the Gwangali Beach further away in the background.

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Toward the South, we can spot the Jagalchi Market, fish barbor, Gwanbok-dong and Amnam Park in the background. Here you can see how close the Yongdusan Park is from Jagalchi and Gwangbokdong.

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Another Wow to me, the well developed and planned township of Busan city centre.

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This is the Nothern view of the city. Away from the CBD, outskirt of the city is surrounded by mountains.

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A view of Yongdusan Park and Busan Tower when the night falls. I took this shot after our evening tea at Gwangbok-dong and took the escalator up.

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We had dinner in Lotte Departmental Store. The world’s largest indoor Aquatique Show is the highlight of the mall.

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Lotte Gwangbok branch shopping complex is the first seaside department store in Korea. “It prides itself not only for its heaven-blessed natural environment but also as the largest youth-oriented shopping complex and cultural space in Busan. It has become a representative department store in Busan, welcoming not only the people from Korea but also foreign visitors as well.“- Abstracted from Lotte website.

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Before we went back to Haeundae Beach, Centum City was our last stop. Featuring Shinsegae Centum City, the Guiness World Record holder for the world’s largest shopping mall and, Busan Cinema Centre, the exclusive venue of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), Centum City is the new urban developement region located not far away from Haeundae Beach.

You can see all these photos in full resolution on my Flickr Korean album. To get there, check out the Google Guide Map below.

Coming up next, find out how we spent our second night in Busan including wandering in the new Centum City and Haeundae Beach at night! 🙂  Travel Feeder

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