Banpo Hangang river park begins to have known as hidden night scenery attraction in Seoul. So a number of foreign tourists visiting here are increasing. You take Incheon airport railroad at Incehon airport to go just one stop and transfer to subway line 9 at Gimpo airport station, keep going to Express bus terminal station. This park is within 10 minutes’ walk from this station. Due to its convenient accessibility from a station, it has become more and more popular from foreign travellers.
There’s no place like Hangang river as a spot with which lovers spend some quality times at warm spring day. And so people visit this park most especially at this time. In particular, after sunset, this place is packed with foreign tourists and visitors hoping to see night scenery here and also with amateur photographers eager to press the shutters of their cameras toward this fountain.
The reason why this place is considered as a night scenery attraction is that moonlight rainbow fountain of Banpo bridge beautifully embroiders at night and Seoul floating island afloat in Hangang river is located nearby.
It looks like forming large groups that People stand tightly around Banpo bridge when a rainbow fountain pours. The fountain mixed well with music running through speakers is enough to draw enthusiastic cheers from visitors. While various genres of music from OST of old movies stimulating nostalgia to newest songs pumping out of speakers for 20 minutes, the fountain evokes very romantic atmospheres.
This moonlight rainbow fountain may be subject to change of operating hours depending on the situation and also to no operation owing to weather conditions and so on. So before visiting, you have to check up this condition.
Seoul floating island located near Banpo bridge is also receiving attentions as a night view attraction. This island was constructed in the floating form that would build a structure on the floating body being able to float on the water first in the world. It is gaining huge popularity as a film location of ‘Avengers 2’, a recently released movie.
Its lightings from its changing color hourly are to catch visitor’s eyes. There are convention hall, cafes and restaurants inside it. Besides floating island, visitors can also watch Namsan tower over Hangang river at this park. It is the reason why this park attracts tourists’ attention mostly among lots of parks of Hangang river.
If you want to cherish unforgettable memory at any spring day when the sun is setting in Korea, you had better go to Banpo Hangang river park.
How to go to Banpo Hangang river park : at Gimpo airport station of Incheon airport railroad > transfer to subway line 9 > come out of exit 5 of Express bus terminal station
<Operating hours of Moonlight rainbow fountain of Banpo bridge: to operate for 20 minutes each time>
April~June / September~October
weekday : 12:00, 20:00, 20:30, 21:00
weekend : 12:00, 19:30, 20:00, 20:30, 21:30
July~August
weekday : 12:00, 19:30, 20:00, 20:30, 21:00
weekend : 12:00, 19:30, 20:00, 20:30, 21:00, 21:30
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