First Visit to Seoul - Seoul Station, Namsan Mountain & N Seoul Tower

This past Monday was a holiday for us, the holiday was Chusok, the Korean thanksgiving. We had a four day weekend, so we decided to go to Seoul. We took a train from the Cheonan train station and it took about an hour to get there. Once we arrived at the Seoul Station, we toured around the neighbourhood. We found Nandaemun market, which has several stands of clothes, shoes, purses and food. We saw the North Seoul Tower on top of Namsan Mountain and I remembered that my kids told me about it, so we walked to it. This is what it looked like:

So we walked to it and walked up all the stairs, the mountain is 262m in elevation, so it was quite a climb.  There was a nice fountain at the bottom and some nice scenery as we walked up. 

Once we got to the top, there was a lot of up there, besides the tower, there was music, lookouts, shops, a restaurant and the famous lovers lock railings. Couples bring locks with them to the base of the tower and lock two locks together. There are thousands of locks, its quite amazing!

After Namsan, we visited an area called Itaewon. This is a very foreign friendly area with lots of shopping and tons of foreign restaurants. We had our first burger in Korea and it was pretty good. The only downside is that they don't use real cheese, everything is sliced!! (Very sad..) After walking around for a while, we took the subway back to Seoul Station and took the KTX home. The KTX is more money, but it was much faster, reaching speeds of around 265 km/h. It was dark, but you could see the flash of lights in the city whizzing by. 

Overall, it was a great day, we saw a lot, but still need to go back and do more adventuring!!