![]() ![]() Getting there is half the fun: take a bus from Ganghwa-eup to Oepo-ri (30 min, every 30 min), cross by ferry to Seokmodo (W2000 10 min, every 30 min), and then take a shuttle bus (W1000) to the temple. High up on Seokmodo Island, this temple is located in a scenic grotto with rock carvings and is famous as a place for women to pray for sons. There is another cluster of dolmen at Gocheon-ri (고천리). A prehistoric burial site listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site, the largest stone here is 2.6×7.1×5.5 meters in size and weighs somewhere between 150 and 225 tons. There is also a tourist information center at the ferry terminal in Oepo-ri. No English is spoken but they have English-language tourist maps. There is a tourist information located inside the bus terminal. Local buses also connect to Gimpo (the city, not the airport). ![]() There are frequent direct buses (W4200 90 min) from Seoul's Sinchon Bus Terminal to the main town of Ganghwa-eup, as well as Bupyeong Station, Hapjeong Station, Songjeong Station, and Incheon Bus Terminal in Incheon. North Korea is directly across the channel on the north coast of the island. Ganghwa is separated from the Korean mainland by a narrow channel, spanned by two bridges passable by cars. The county of Ganghwa includes several other islands, most notably Seokmodo, the site of Bomunsa Temple. Ganghwa Island (강화도, 江華島 Ganghwado), previously romanized as Kanghwa Island, is a rural county (군, gun) of Incheon, South Korea. ![]()
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