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3 days in Seoul

A complete 3-day Seoul itinerary with 13 places, arranged so each stop is open when you arrive and the walking between them stays sensible.

Days
3
Places
13
Time in transit
363 min
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Why the stops are in this order

Most itineraries you find online are a list of places worth seeing, left in whatever order the writer thought of them. That is the part that falls apart on the day: you arrive somewhere at 17:40 and it closed at 17:00, or you cross the city twice because two neighbouring sights sat on different days.

This plan is sequenced instead of listed. Every stop below is checked against the opening hours of the place itself, and the gaps between them are real door-to-door travel times, not straight-line distance on a map. The visiting windows shown are what is actually achievable in a day.

Across all 3 days this route spends 363 minutes in transit — that number is the point. Reordering the same 13 places carelessly can easily double it, and that time comes straight out of your trip.

Day 1

09:00–21:30 · 4 places · 105 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 23 min by public transport

    Changdeokgung

    09:23–11:23 2 hr

  3. Lunch

    12:00–12:30 30 min

  4. N Seoul Tower

    12:30–14:30 2 hr

  5. 37 min by public transport

    War Memorial of Korea

    15:07–17:07 2 hr

  6. 45 min by public transport

    Lotte World Tower

    17:52–19:52 2 hr

Day 2

09:00–21:30 · 5 places · 158 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 10 min by public transport

    Cheonggyecheon

    09:10–10:10 1 hr

  3. 42 min by public transport

    Lotte World

    10:52–15:07 4 hr 15 min

  4. 48 min by public transport

    National Museum of Korea

    15:55–17:55 2 hr

  5. 35 min by public transport

    Insa-dong Culture Street

    18:30–20:30 2 hr

  6. 23 min by public transport

    삼순이계단 Samsooni Strairs

    20:53–21:23 30 min

Day 3

09:00–21:30 · 4 places · 100 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 18 min by public transport

    Seoullo 7017

    09:18–10:48 1 hr 30 min

  3. 30 min by public transport

    Namsan Palgakjeong (Octagonal Pavilion)

    11:18–12:18 1 hr

  4. Lunch

    12:18–12:48 30 min

  5. Ihwa-dong Mural Village

    12:48–14:18 1 hr 30 min

  6. 52 min by public transport

    Sevit Island

    15:10–16:40 1 hr 30 min

Make it your trip

The schedule above is built for a generic 3-day visit. Open it in the planner to set your own dates — the timings recalculate against the opening hours for those specific days, which matters more than it sounds when a museum closes on Mondays. You can drag stops between days, swap anything you are not interested in, and the rest of the day re-sequences around the change.

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