Seoul’s Historic Heart and Landmarks
Seoul · South Korea
- Audio guide
- 4 languages
- Offline
Walk through Seoul’s historic heart, from the restored Cheonggyecheon park and civic spaces to royal buildings, temples, markets, and mountain views. You’ll see how grand squares and palace grounds connect with traditional neighborhoods and living city streets. The route ends above the city at N Seoul Tower, making this a rewarding way to experience Seoul’s history, culture, and changing skyline.
The walk
Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.
Cheonggyecheon
Cheonggyecheon is a park and tourism attraction in Seoul, South Korea.
Seoul Plaza
A former traffic square remade as Seoul’s civic lawn, protest ground, and winter ice rink.
Seoul Museum of Art
Seoul’s art museum began in a palace district and now occupies a former Supreme Court building.
Gwanghwamun Square
A royal administrative street transformed from sixteen traffic lanes into Seoul’s civic stage.
Jogyesa Temple
Seoul’s chief Jogye Buddhist temple, shaped by colonial resistance, renamed twice, and still filled with chanting.
Geunjeongjeon Hall
A royal throne hall where five Joseon kings were crowned, then turned into a colonial symbol.
Stop 7
Stop 8
Stop 9
- 8 more stops in the app
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
More walks in Seoul
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How a walk works
8 more stops in the app
This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.
Pick a walk
Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.
Pocket your phone
Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.
Listen as you arrive
On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.
Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.
A guide who talks
Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.
The route, followed
A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.
In four languages
English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.
Or build your own
Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.
The unglamorous things
Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.
No signal needed
Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.
Picks up where you left off
Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.