Tour Bus, Seoul

The Seoul City Tour Bus is a convenient way to get your bearings and see all of the major sights in Seoul. For one price of 10,000 Won, you can get a ticket for a full day of unlimited rides. The bus stops at about 15 major sites in the downtown area including two palaces; the markets of Dongdaemun and Namdaemun; the shopping areas of Myeongdong, Itaewon, and Insadong; the Blue House (President's home); and both Yongsan and Seoul Stations. The bus also stops at about 15 of Seoul's largest hotels. The whole route takes about two hours if you do not get off the bus. You could easily make this an all-day sightseeing event if you get off the bus at your favorite attractions and take photos or shop. With an all-day ticket you can get on and off the bus as often as you wish.

Seoul City Tour Bus stops have English signs and are painted with a distinctive blue and red design. At any stop, just pay the driver, and he will issue your ticket. Buses run from 0900 to 2100.

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Seoul City Tour Bus is a fully air-condition, nice seat and they provide you well English speaking tour guide in the bus. This bus will take you to the most popular attractions all around Seoul city. They provide 3 courses. There are Downtown Tour, Palace Tour and Nigh Tour. You can buy the tickets on the board instead you buy it at the other ticketing counter. They offer you 2 types of ticket which are Single ride (adult - 5,000 won, children - 3,000 won) and One Day Ticket (for Downtown Tour and Palace Tour) which will cost you about 10,000 won for adult and 8,000 won for children. It is cheap!
We decided to take One Day Ticket since we wished to visit entireSeoul. The route and the place visit for Downtown Tour and Palace Tour course is not much different. Seoul City tour bus will take you to 5 palaces instead of 3 palaces with Downtown Tour course. The other places offered by Palace tour are Korea Press Center, Kyobo Book Center and Seoul Museum History which are located nearby the Palace. You have to walk for 5 minutes or cross the road to go there.. Otherwise, I recommend you to take the Downtown Tour Course and it is enough to cover all attraction places around the Seoul. The tour guide in the bus can speak korean and english. But most of the time they speak korean since all the people in the bus are korean. They will speak english when they realize the existence of foreign visitors in the bus. This bus also provides you multilingual guide service via individual headphones and it is present to you during on board of the bus. It will take only 10 to 15 minutes waiting for the next bus at the place you stop. You won’t wait longer for the bus to take you to other places since the bus will run at the first stop in every 30 minutes.

A NiceWay to tour Seoul and the Surroundings but it is very expensive as it can only take up to a maximum of 3 persons plus the driver/tourguide. prices start at $ 150-200 per person per day but you have flexitime (you can spend more time or less time at attractions and sites and the cut off time is up to 8:00 pm.

The Seoul City Tour Bus is the best way to see Seoul's main tourist attractions. It is great value and a great service.

The main Downtown Tour route is: 1 Gwanghwamun 2 Deoksugung 3 Nandaemun Market 4 Seoul Station 5 USO 6 Yongsan Station 7 War Memorial of Korea 8 US Army Yongsan Base 9 Itaewon 10 Crown Hotel 11 Myeongdong 12 Namsangol Traditional Korean Village 13 Sofitel Ambassador Hotel 14 National Theater 15 Namsan Seoul Tower 16 Hyatt Hotel 17 Tower Hotel 18 Shilla Hotel 19 Dongdaemun Market 20 Daehango 21 Changyeonggung 22 Changdeokgung 23 Insadong 24 Cheong Wa Dae 25 National Folk Museum 26 Gyeonbokgung 27 Police museum 28 Sejong Center for Performing Arts.

There is a guide on every bus, who speaks English, Japanese and bits of a few other languages too. There are also free audio headsets giving detailed information in five languages.

The terminal is in front of Donghwha DFS in Gwanghwanun, but you can board the bus at any of the 28 stops on the circular route.

The buses depart every half hour from 09.00 unitil 19.00. They take 2 hours to cover the circuit, so the last bus arrives back at 21.00. You just hop on and off the buses wherever you see the cylindrical, red, white and blue Seoul City Tour sign poles.

A 1-day ticket costs just 10,000 won for adults and 8,000 won for children. You can buy the tickets on the bus.

The Seoul City Tour Bus is an efficient, easy and inexpensive way of exploring all major sights of Seoul for tourists and locals alike.

There are four different itineraries:
World Cup Tour
The World Cup Tour takes around 2 hours and covers a total of 17 destinations from 9.00am to 5.00pm.

Night Tour
The Night Tour takes around 2.5 hours and covers 26 destinations from 5.30pm to 11.30pm.

Downtown Tour
The Downtown Tour takes around 2 hours and covers 23 destinations from 9.00am to 5.00pm.

Palace Course
The Palace Course takes about an hour and covers 15 destinations from 9.00am to 5.00pm.

Fares
There are four kind of tickets available. Adult Fare (Youth Fare) as follows:
1. Single ticket - 3,000 KRW (2,000 KRW) - expires on exiting the bus
2. Day Pass or Night Pass - 8,000 KRW (6,000 KRW) - hop on and off as often as you want
3. All Day Pass - 12,000 KRW (9,000 KRW) - hop on and off as often as you want from 9.00am to 11.30pm
4. 2-Day Pass - 20,000 KRW (tbc) - valid for two full days for all tours

Buses depart every 30 minutes (Palace Course: every 1 hour) in front of the Donghwa Duty-free Shop in Gwanghwamun. You can also boadr at any of the stops along the route.

Tickets can be purchased at the counter at Gwanghwamun or on the bus.

This city tour bus line offers a comprehensive tour around Seoul, including most of the tourist attractions. Tickets are purchased on board and are valid for the day, so you can get off and visit the attractions you want and board the bus again to the next attraction.

There are actually two lines: blue line, including downtown and palace tour; and green line, touring only around the palaces.

This bus is specifically designed for the city tour and expert tour guides who can speak Korean, English, Japanese, or Chinese accompany the tour.

A tour begins every 25 minutes at the bus terminal. Tourists with a day ticket can hop on and off an unlimited time from any bus at any of the designated tour-bus stops.

Tickets can be purchased with cash on the bus. The price isn't that much.