Hanyangdoseong Naksan Walk: Seoul's Best Sunset Section
The Wall Appears Out of Nowhere I dropped a group of four off at Hyehwa Station Exit 2 one Tuesday evening around five o'clock. They were skeptical — 'isn't this just a city walk?' one of them said through the car window. I told them to text me when they reached the top of Naksan and looked back toward Inwangsan. They texted forty minutes later. One word: 'Wow.' That reaction is consistent. The Naksan section of the Hanyangdoseong — Seoul's old city wall, originally built in 1396 under King Taejo — delivers a quality of light and cityscape in the late afternoon that the more famous Inwangsan and Bugaksan sections simply cannot match. The wall here crests a low ridge at just over a hundred metres elevation, and because the surrounding neighbourhood of Ihwa-dong sits below on both flanks, the views open up fast and hit hard. For foreign visitors who want something genuinely historic and visually spectacular without a full mountain day, this is the sectio...