Seoul 11.12 - up by the N Seoul Tower

Of course Namsan Cable Car didn't drop visitors off right by the Seoul Tower. After the ride we hiked up a little to see the actual Seoul Tower and its surroundings.


It was beautiful hiking up.
There was a lot to see up by the Seoul Tower!

Seoul 11.12 - Namsan Cable Car

After taking Namsan Oreumi up the mountain, we got our Namsan Cable Car tickets for a beautiful and fun ride up to the Seoul Tower.



You could get either a on-way ticket for 6,000won or a round trip ticket for 8,000won. We got round trip tickets and follow other excited visitors up a short fly of stairs to the Cable Car entrance.

Views from the cable car ride was beautiful. We could see the part of Seoul and cute neighborhoods on the hills, and the woods of the mountains had phenomenal fall colors that were simply stunning.






And then we were there!

Seoul 11.12 - going to see the Seoul Tower

My original plan after checking out Pink and wondering inside the Hoehyeong Underground Shopping Center was to walk to Myeongdong and have some delicious beef rice soups, but since both John and I were still really full after our ham hock lunch, we decided to head up to Seoul Tower first.

With the research I did about heading up to Namsan Seoul Tower, I knew we would want to find the glass elevator "Namsan Oreumi" first so we didn't have to hike all the way up to Namsan ("south mountain") to get to the Seoul Tower cable cars and see all the pretty things up there. (I didn't want to hike up because it was really cold and I was a wimp, but many choose to hike up the mountains because the scenery was spectacular.) 

From where we were (near Hoehyeong Underground Shoppnig and Namdaemun Market) I knew the easiest way for me to find the Namsan Oreumi elevator was to take Exit 6 at the Hoehyeong Station (subway). 

Escalator at Exit 6 inside Hoehyeong Station.

Once we got up to ground level from Exit 6 we could see Seoul Tower in the distance.

All we had to do then was to walk straight forward (uphill), and then we saw the monument and the Namsan Oreumi elevator was right there!

The Namsan Oreumi elevator would go up and down Namsan ("the south mountain") where Seoul Tower is. The elevator is made of glass so visitors can see the beautiful views of the city, as well as the mountain areas.  Inside the elevator and going up the mountain.

Going up. and up. and up. And very soon we were up in Namsan, and the Namsan Cable Car entrance was right there.

Time to walk up to get our tickets and ride in the cable car to see Seoul Tower!