{"id":35796,"date":"2024-12-09T20:27:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T12:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=35796"},"modified":"2026-03-10T20:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:18:03","slug":"day-03-busan-songdo-marine-cable-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2024\/12\/09\/day-03-busan-songdo-marine-cable-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 03 @ Busan – Songdo Marine Cable Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

Busan has a multi-million population of 3.44 million, but the city feels compact, with several places of interest to us not too far from our Airbnb apartment. The Songdo Marine Cable Car<\/strong> has two stations, with most visitors usually opting to take the car from the Songdo Bay Station, which was just 12 minutes away by cab from our apartment. I’d read reports that the Yonggung Suspension Bridge can get pretty crowded, so\u2014being the creatures of habit we are when we’re touring\u2014we set out early and reached the station 30 minutes before the cable car operation began at 9AM.<\/p>\n

A bit of a surprise too: we’d thought that the Busan Visitor Pass was going to get us a normal cable car, but we were assigned the ‘Crystal Cruise’, which basically is a larger car with a tempered glass floor that lets you have a glorious view of the ground or sea below as the car moves along the ropeway.<\/p>\n

Unlike many of the cable car systems we checked out in Japan, this one\u2014like the one in Sentosa\u2014travels across a body of water, and for 1.62km from the east of Songdo Beach where Songdo Bay Station is located, to Amnam Park to the south, with the end point being Songdo Sky Park Station. The cable car ride itself is about 10 minutes long, and you can even pair your smartphone via Bluetooth to the car’s speakers to play your own music. The car operates at a height of 86m, and affords great views of Busan city and the Sea of Japan on the other side.<\/p>\n

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The Songdo Marine Cable Car system.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ticketing counter at the Songdo Bay Station at 8:35AM – no early morning queue at all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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There are English brochures about the cable car at the registration booth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Opting for the ‘Crystal Cruise’ gets you a car with a tempered glass floor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Songdo Beach on the left as the car headed towards Amnam Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Steep cliffs of Amnam-dong. There was renovation work going on along the cliff bridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tankers in the Busan bay area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cold but we got a wonderfully sunny day again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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According to Google Maps, the apartment complex behind Songdo Bay Park Station is the Songdo Hillstate Ijin Bay City.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Songdo Sky Park Station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The cable car station on the south side is the Songdo Sky Park Station, and it’s situated at Amnam Park – a fairly big area in itself. We opted just to explore the Songdo Yonggung Suspension Bridge right away though before the inevitable morning crowds came in: blogged in the next post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Busan has a multi-million population of 3.44 million, but the city feels compact, with several places of interest to us not too far from our Airbnb apartment. The Songdo Marine Cable Car has two stations, with most visitors usually opting<\/p>\n

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