Namsan Tower (N Seoul Tower) - SOUTH KOREA "one of Seoul's city landmarks"

To get to Namsan Tower which is one of Seoul's city landmarks we can ride train, get off at Myeong-dong Station (Seoul Subway Line 4) and exit through Exit 3. Walk about 15 minutes to the right side of Pacific Hotel, the cable car will be seen front.

N Seoul Tower is a radio transmitter located at 105 Namsangongwon-gil, Yongsan 2 (i) ga-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea. The building was built in 1969, and opened to the public for the first time on October 15, 1980.

The tower height is 236.7 m (777 ft) and is at an altitude of 479.7 m (1,574 ft) above sea level. The tower is known as the Namsan Tower or the Seoul Tower alone. But after the tower owners worked with CJ Corporation, the tower was named after the N Seoul Tower (the official name of Seoul Tower CJ).

Most visitors board the Namsan cable car to get to the staircase Namsan Tower, then walk to the tower. Cable car ticket price for 8,500 won return and price for one way 6,000 won.

Cable car line to namsan tower  

In the tower there is a gift shop and restaurant downstairs. There are four observation balconies (on the 4th observation balcony, there is a rotating restaurant, and spin once for 48 minutes), as well as a gift shop and two restaurants on it. From this place we can see almost all of Seoul city. Nearby there is also a transmission tower. To go to the observatory area is charged 10,000 won ticket price.

Here are the facilities available at Namsan Tower

[Seoul Tower Plaza]

L - Hanbok Culture Experience Center

1F - Starbucks, Solnara, Gong Cha, Banwoldang Croquette, What Happened in Jeju, Perfect Match, Steak, GS 25, Souvenir shop.

2F - Bon Woori Bansang, Teddy Bear Gallery

3F - Broadcasting facility, security room

4F - Season Table, Game Plaza, Hosigi Double Chicken, Ah-Charm

[N Seoul Tower]

5F - N Sweet Bar, A Twosome Place, Ssentoy Museum, Hello Kitty Island

T1 - Ticket booth, Food O'clock, N Burger, N Terrace, A Twosome Place, Olive Young

T2 - The PLACE Dining

T3 - Hancook

T4 - Observatory, A Twosome Place

T7 - n.GRILL

  

In the peak area there is a very popular location with the name of the padlock of love. There are thousands or even millions of locks called Love Lock (사랑 의 자물쇠) mounted on the fence with a variety of writing containing the ideals made by lovers. Then the locks of the padlocks are discarded in the hope that they will not be separated. Love Lock is also common in other countries, for example in China, Uruguay, Taiwan, etc.

The idea of ​​installing a padlock in N Seoul Tower comes from local tourists who see something like this also in Tokyo Tower. Then became even more popular after a pair of Korean celebrities, Alex and Sinae came dating there on MBC We Got Married, and even made the number of padlocks increase.