Family, 2 days: museums and Baekje royal tombs: a route through Gyeryongsan: Gapsa & Donghaksa → Muryeong Tomb, Museum & Gomanaru. 13 stops, estimated cost about ₩150,000 per person (excluding lodging).
The timetable below is built from the distances between stops. You can follow it as is, or open the Gongju planner at the bottom of the page to swap any stop and have the times recalculated.
Starts at 10:00 and wraps up around 20:27. 7 stops, about ₩100,000 per person.
A village of pottery studios that continues a local tradition of decorated stoneware.
A fusion Korean set-meal restaurant in the Banpo area where the dishes arrive in sequence, like a course.
A privately run natural history museum with large dinosaur skeletons and fossils, a good i…
A cafe with floor-to-ceiling windows looking over a reservoir, with a walking path around the water.
A museum built beside the riverside site where Korea's first Paleolithic excavation took p…
A restaurant serving a set meal built around tteokgalbi, a grilled patty of chopped short …
A reservoir with the ridge of Gyeryongsan as its backdrop, reached along the road between the temples and the town.
Parking lots at major sights fill up early in the morning, so leave extra time for parking between stops.
Some stops need a reservation. Tap the reservation tag on the card to check in advance.
Palaces, historic houses and temples stop admitting visitors 30 to 60 minutes before closing, so do not save them for last.
For outdoor walks, wear comfortable shoes and carry a bottle of water. It gets windy after sunset, so bring a layer.
Starts at 09:00 and wraps up around 18:40. 6 stops, about ₩50,000 per person.
Gomanaru was an old ferry crossing on the Geum River, and its name is tied to a legend about a bear.
A family-run gukbap house, serving the clear beef-bone rice soup that Gongju is known for.
A small exhibition hall near the tomb site that summarizes the period when Gongju, then ca…
A bakery known for pies and breads that use whole Gongju chestnuts, sweet and dense inside a flaky crust.
This national museum holds the finest treasures from Baekje's Ungjin period, and above all…
A restaurant serving rice cooked in a stone pot with a table of leafy wraps and side dishes.
Some stops need a reservation. Tap the reservation tag on the card to check in advance.
Palaces, historic houses and temples stop admitting visitors 30 to 60 minutes before closing, so do not save them for last.
For outdoor walks, wear comfortable shoes and carry a bottle of water. It gets windy after sunset, so bring a layer.
Keep about an hour free in the afternoon so the kids can rest.