Seoul Attractions by Subway Station

Which Seoul subway stations have the most attractions, restaurants and shops?

안국역. 51 attractions, 65 restaurants and 13 shopping places name it as their nearest station, 129 in all. Second is 경복궁역 with 92 and third is 홍대입구역 with 63.

The top three add up to 284, or 15.0% of the 1,896 entries that name a station. A station here is the one written as nearest in the transport column of the source.

Which Seoul subway stations lead for attractions, restaurants and shopping separately?

안국역 leads for both attractions (51) and restaurants (65), while 성수역 leads for shopping (28).

The same lists by district are in Seoul Attractions by District, Seoul Restaurants by District and Seoul Shopping Places by District.

How do the places near Seoul subway stations divide by line?

Line 3 and Line 2 share first place with 455 each. A transfer station is counted once for each line it serves.

Line 3 splits into 136 attractions, 262 restaurants and 57 shopping places. Line names were read as written in the source, and the table shows the ten lines named most often.

How far is the walk from Seoul subway stations to an attraction?

The median for the 406 attractions with a distance is 370 m. For restaurants it is 320 m and for shopping places 312 m.

The share within 500 m of a station exit is 64.3% for attractions, 73.1% for restaurants and 74.1% for shopping places. Attractions have the most entries beyond 1 km, with 29. Distances are the values written in the source.

How many entries name one of the Seoul subway stations?

1,896 of the 2,206 entries on the three lists (85.9%). A station is named by 429 attractions, 1,161 restaurants and 306 shopping places.

Entries with an empty transport column, or with only a bus stop, are not in the station tables. The number of attractions that close on Mondays is in How Many Seoul Attractions Are Closed on Mondays?.

What should you keep in mind when reading the figures on places near Seoul subway stations?

This is the list of places featured on Visit Seoul, the city's official travel guide. It is not a census of every attraction in Seoul. A district's count is the number of places the guide lists there, not the number that exist. The dataset is updated monthly, so the figures are those of the download date.

A station's count is not the number of places around it. It is the number of listed places that name it as their nearest station. A place between two stations is written under one of them only, and where the directions include a bus transfer the first subway station was counted. The restaurant and shopping lists likewise cover only places featured in the travel guide.

Where do the figures on places near Seoul subway stations come from, and how were they calculated?

The figures are Seoul Tourism and Medical Tourism Data's own counts from "Seoul tourist attractions", a dataset the Seoul Tourism Organization publishes on the Seoul Open Data Plaza, downloaded on 9 Oct 2026. The file has 2,502 rows in five languages, with the same place listed once per language, so only the 506 Korean rows are counted. Districts are read from the address column, and subway stations and distances from the transport column.

The figures are Seoul Tourism and Medical Tourism Data's own counts from "Seoul restaurants for visitors", a dataset the Seoul Tourism Organization publishes on the Seoul Open Data Plaza, downloaded on 9 Oct 2026. The file has 6,632 rows in five languages, with the same place listed once per language, so only the 1,373 Korean rows are counted. Districts are read from the address column, and subway stations and distances from the transport column.

The figures are Seoul Tourism and Medical Tourism Data's own counts from "Seoul shopping places for visitors", a dataset the Seoul Tourism Organization publishes on the Seoul Open Data Plaza, downloaded on 9 Oct 2026. The file has 1,288 rows in five languages, with the same place listed once per language, so only the 327 Korean rows are counted. Districts are read from the address column, and subway stations and distances from the transport column. Seoul Tourism and Medical Tourism Data calculated the combined station ranking, the counts by line, and the median distances and shares.